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Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013

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Personal name headingGumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013
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Variant(s)Gumperz, John Joseph, 1922-2013
Gumperz, Hans-Josef, 1922-2013
Birth date19220109
Death date20130329
Place of birthHattingen, Germany
Field of activitySociolinguistics
AffiliationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupationLinguist College teacher
Found inHis The Swabian dialect of Washtenaw county, Michigan ... 1954.
His Discourse strategies, 1982: CIP t.p. (John J. Gumperz)
LC database, Apr. 3, 2013 (hdg.: Gumperz, John Joseph, 1922- ; usage: John J. Gumperz)
New York times (online), viewed Apr. 3, 2013 (in obituary published Apr. 2: John J. Gumperz; b. Hans-Josef Gumperz, Jan. 9, 1922, Hattingen, Germany; moved to the U.S. with his family, 1939; Americanized his name to John Joseph Gumperz not long afterward; d. Friday [Mar. 29, 2013], aged 91; sociolinguist who created the subfield known as interactional sociolinguistics; joined the Berkeley faculty in 1956; emeritus professor in Berkeley's anthropology department; also emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara)
Associated languageeng