Sociolinguistics Faculty

  • Robin Lakoff: language and gender, discourse, pragmatics, language and politics
  • Leanne Hinton: endangered languages, language revitalization, variation theory, American Indian languages

  • Selected faculty books on sociolinguistics

  • Lakoff, R., 2000 The Language War. Berkeley, California: The University of California Press, 2000.
  • Lakoff, R. In preparation: (edited with Sachiko Ide) New perspectives in Linguistic Politeness: Papers from ISLP 1999 (International Conference on Linguistic Politeness), Bangkok. To be published by Benjamin.
  • Hinton, 2001 The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice. Edited by Ken Hale and Leanne Hinton. Academic Press.
  • Hinton, 2002 Keeping your language alive: a common-sense approach to language learning and teaching. Heyday Books.

    Faculty in other departments:

  • Bill Hanks, Anthropology
  • Carla Hudson, Psychology
  • Sue Ervin-Tripp, Psychology (emeritus)