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David Crystal
Published over 100 books. Awarded OBE for services to English Language in 1995. Honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor.
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Dale Spender
Published over 30 books. Published 'Man Made Language' in 1980.
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Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf
Sapir was a professor of anthropology at Yale. Whorf was Sapir's student.
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Judith Butler
Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley.
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Jennifer Coates
Emeritus professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton.
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Janet Hyde
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Deborah Tannen
Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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Peter Trudgill
Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia. Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg. FBA (fellow of The British Academy.)
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Claude Levi-Strauss
Was elected a member of the Academie Francaise in 1973 (French council for their language.)
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William O'Barr (and Bowman Atkins)
O'Barr is Professor emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
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Raewyn Connell
Member of Editorial Board at the British Journal of Sociology. Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney.
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James Gee
Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University.
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Sara Mills
Professor at Sheffield Hallam University
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Deborah Cameron
Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication, fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University.
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Janet Holmes
Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Robin Lakoff
Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Norman Fairclough
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University.
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Shan Wareing
Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at London South Bank University and a Professor of Teaching in Higher Education.
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John Sinclair (Sinclair & Coulthard)
Was Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Birmingham, from 1965 to 2000.
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Malcolm Coulthard
Did doctoral research with John Sinclair at University of Birmingham. Currently Emeritus Professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University.
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John McWhorter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Paul Grice
Graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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J. L. Austin
Was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Erving Goffman
73rd president of the American Sociological Association.
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Jean Aitcheson
Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
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Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson
Brown: Emeritus member of the Language Acquisition Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Levinson has FBA title, and is Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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Howard Giles
Professor of communication at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Jean Berko - Gleason
Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Went to Harvard.
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Jean Piaget
Was Director of the International Bureau of Education.
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Kathy Hirsh - Pasek
Author of 14 books, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
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Jerome Bruner
Was a Senior Research Fellow at the New York University School of Law.
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Ursula Bellugi
Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
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B. F. Skinner
Was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
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Noam Chomsky
Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary member of the British Psychological Society.
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Eric Lenneberg
Was a member of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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Lesley Milroy
Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan.
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James Milroy
In 1981, became Chair of The Linguistics Science Department at the University of Sheffield.
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Published over 30 books. Published 'Man Made Language' in 1980.

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Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley.

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Emeritus professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton.

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