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Name
  
Penelope Eckert

Role
  
Professor

Books
  
Jocks and burnouts


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Education
  
Columbia University (1978), Columbia University (1969), Oberlin College (1963)

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Penelope "Penny" Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she holds the position of Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics. She is a prominent scholar of variationist sociolinguistics, and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender.

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Eckert received her PhD in linguistics in 1978 from Columbia University, where she was a student of William Labov. Her early work was on phonological variation in Gascon. Her more recent work focuses on the social meaning of linguistic variables, particularly in English. She is the author or co-author of three books on sociolinguistics, the co-editor of three collections, and author of numerous scholarly papers in the field.

She was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011

She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.

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Selected publications

  • Eckert, Penelope (1989). Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School. New York: Teachers College Press. 
  • Eckert, Penelope (2000). Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell. 
  • Penelope Eckert; Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003). Language and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Eckert, Penelope; Rickford, John, eds. (2001). Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59789-7. 
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