Institutions UC Santa Barbara Alma mater UC Berkeley | Name Mary Bucholtz | |
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Born 29 October 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-10-29 ) Main interests Sociocultural linguistics Principal ideas Tactics of intersubjectivity Major works Language and woman's place: text and commentaries Books White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity Education Grinnell College, University of California, Berkeley | ||
Mary Bucholtz (born 29 October 1966), is professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. She is well known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Kira Hall.
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Education
Bucholtz received her B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in1997. She has held previous academic positions at Stanford and Texas A&M.
Career
Bucholtz's work focuses largely on language use in the United States, and specifically on issues of language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; and Mexican and Chicano Spanish.
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