Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi Schieffelin is a linguistic anthropologist at New York University in the department of Anthropology. She has written extensively about language socialization, language contact, language ideology, Haitian creole, and missionization.

She received her undergraduate and doctorate degrees from Columbia University, in anthropology and masters and postdoctorate in developmental psychology.

She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, and compiled a dictionary of Kaluli, a Bosavi language.

She has recently researched youth language use in instant messaging and text messaging., particularly the use of the word like. She is currently interested in the linguistic aspects of the Lolcat phenomenon.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Schieffelin, Bambi (January 2009,). "Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be + like in Instant Messaging". Language & Communication 29 (1): 77–113. 
  2. ^ Schieffelin, Bambi and Miki Makihara, ed (2007). Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195324983. 
  3. ^ Schieffelin, Bambi (1998). Language Ideologies. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195105612. 
  4. ^ Schieffelin, Bambi (2005). The Give and Take of Everyday Life. City: Fenestra Books. ISBN 1587364409. 

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