Mary Bucholtz | |
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Born | 29 October 1966 |
Website | www |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | UC Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Institutions | UC Santa Barbara |
Main interests | Sociocultural linguistics |
Notable works | Language and woman's place: text and commentaries |
Notable ideas | Tactics of intersubjectivity |
Mary Bucholtz (born 29 October 1966), is professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. She is well known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Kira Hall.
Bucholtz received her B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in1997. She has held previous academic positions at Stanford and Texas A&M.
Bucholtz's work focuses largely on language use in the United States, and specifically on issues of language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; and Mexican and Chicano Spanish.