John J. Gumperz
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. 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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