John J. Gumperz
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1922 – 2013
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Who was John J. Gumperz?
John Joseph Gumperz was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley. His research on the languages of India, on code-switching in Norway, and on conversational interaction, has benefitted the study of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and urban anthropology.
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- Born
- Jan 9, 1922
Hattingen - Also known as
- John Gumperz
- Hans-Josef Gumperz
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, University of Michigan
Germanic philology
( - 1954)
- PhD, University of Michigan
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Santa Barbara
( - 2013/03/29)
- Santa Barbara
- Died
- Mar 29, 2013
Santa Barbara
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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