John J. Gumperz

Thinkers1922 to 2013Linguist

Works

  • Discourse Strategies, Cambridge University Press, 1982

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A Berkeley sociolinguist and founder of interactional sociolinguistics. With Jan-Petter Blom he described situational and metaphorical code-switching, and he showed how contextualization cues in speech signal how an utterance is to be taken.

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