John Joseph Gumperz was an American linguist and academic who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research on the languages of India, on code-switching in Norway, and on conversational interaction benefited the study of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology and urban anthropology.
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RoleAmerican linguist and academic, founder of interactional sociolinguistics 1 Role
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Studied code-switching and social meaning in bilingual Hindi-Punjabi speech communities in Delhi as part of his foundational work in interactional sociolinguistics.
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John Joseph Gumperz (January 9, 1922 - March 29, 2013) was an American linguist and academic.
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was an American linguist and academic.
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John Joseph Gumperz (January 9, 1922 - March 29, 2013) was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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