Penelope Eckert
Penelope "Penny" Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she holds the position of Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics.[1] She is a prominent scholar of variationist sociolinguistics, and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender.[2][3]
Eckert received her PhD in linguistics in 1978 from Columbia University, where she was a student of William Labov. Her early work was on phonological variation in Gascon.[4] Her more recent work focuses on the social meaning of linguistic variables, particularly in English. She is the author or co-author of three books on sociolinguistics, the co-editor of three collections, and author of numerous scholarly papers in the field.
She was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 [5]
She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.[6]
Selected publications
- Eckert, Penelope (1989). Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Eckert, Penelope (2000). Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Eckert, Penelope; McConnell-Ginet, Sally (2003). Language and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Eckert, Penelope; Rickford, John, eds. (2001). Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59789-7.[7]
External links
- Penelope Eckert's web page, Stanford University
- Linguistics on the Playground; National Public Radio's Michelle Norris interviews Eckert about Northern California youth speech
- Do You Speak American? California English
References
- ↑ "Stanford Linguistics Faculty and Researchers". Retrieved January 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Penelope Eckert". Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- ↑ "Faculty and researchers". Stanford Linguistics. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- ↑ Eckert, Penelope (1980). "The structure of a long-term phonological process: The back vowel chain shift in Soulatan Gascon". In William Labov. Locating Language in Time and Space. New York: Academic Press.
- ↑ "List of Active Members by Class" (PDF).
- ↑ "LSA Fellows by Year of Induction". Retrieved January 15, 2014.
- ↑ Stegen, Oliver. "Review of Style and sociolinguistic variation, Edited by Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford". Retrieved 2011-11-23.