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William Hanks's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William F. Hanks is an American linguist and anthropologist who has done influential work in linguistic anthropology describing the uses of deixis and indexicality in the Yucatec Maya language. He holds the Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. Hanks earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. A student of Michael Silverstein, he received his Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is also known for introducing the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of communicative practices. He received the Edward Sapir award of the American Anthropological Association for his 2010 monograph "Converting Words" about the colonial period society of Yucatán. In addition to the University of Chicago, he also held a faculty position at Northwestern University before receiving his chair at the University of California at Berkeley.

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William Hanks's Published Works

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Language & communicative practices (1995) (453)
discourse genres in a theory of practice (1987) (358)
Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya (1993) (282)
Cancer pain: management (1992) (201)
PIERRE BOURDIEU AND THE PRACTICES OF LANGUAGE (2005) (186)
Converting WordsMaya in the Age of the Cross (2010) (166)
Explorations in the Deictic Field1 (2005) (160)
TEXT AND TEXTUALITY (1989) (153)
Fieldwork on deixis (2009) (118)
The elements : a parasession on linguistic units and levels, April 20-21, 1979 : including papers from the Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR, April 18, 1979 (1979) (86)
Situated Learning: Foreword by William F. Hanks (1991) (82)
authenticity and ambivalence in the text: a colonial Maya case (1986) (76)
Towards an emancipatory pragmatics (2009) (58)
Sanctification, Structure, and Experience in a Yucatec Ritual Event (1984) (53)
Evidentiality in social interaction (2012) (53)
Word And Image In Maya Culture: Explorations in Language, Writing, and Representation (1989) (50)
Translating worlds (2014) (50)
Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context (1999) (49)
Reflexive language: Metalanguage and pragmatics of deixis (1993) (35)
The space of translation (2014) (29)
Counterparts: Co-presence and ritual intersubjectivity (2013) (15)
Converting Words (2019) (14)
Grammar, Style, and Meaning in a Maya Manuscript (1988) (13)
Person reference in interaction: Person reference in Yucatec Maya conversation (2007) (12)
Communicative interaction in terms of ba theory: Towards an innovative approach to language practice (2019) (9)
Treatability Statements in Serious Illness: The Gap Between What is Said and What is Heard (2019) (9)
Alphabetic Literacy and Colonial Process in Yucatán (2015) (7)
We Convey More Than We (Literally) Say (2018) (7)
Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Ritual Event (2020) (6)
Spatial frames of reference in language and thought (2006) (6)
Introduction to emancipatory pragmatics, Special issue Part 3: From practice theory to ba theory (2014) (5)
The Language of the Canek Manuscript (1992) (5)
Language in Christian Conversion (2014) (4)
Deixis and the organization of interactive context in Yucatec Maya (1983) (4)
Recognizing the Role of Language in the Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate Medical Education: Implications for Equity in Medical Training. (2020) (3)
IntroductionModalities of co-participation (2012) (3)
TEXT AND TEXTUALITY IN ORAL PERFORMANCE (2007) (3)
11. Deixis and indexicality (2011) (2)
Birth of a Language (2012) (1)
Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, April 19-20, 1979 (1979) (1)
Relativity, Reflexivity, and Difference (2018) (0)
11. Cross Talk In The Books Of Chilam Balam (2019) (0)
Three Phenomenologies of Language (2018) (0)
Saturation by Context (2018) (0)
The Proportionality of Shifters in Yucatec (1985) (0)
From Signs to Sentences (2018) (0)
3. To Make Themselves New Men (2019) (0)
4. From Field To Genre And Habitus (2019) (0)
5. First Words From Spanish Into Maya (2019) (0)
Elements of Communicative Practice (2018) (0)
Communicative Practice in the Corporeal Field (2018) (0)
Introduction: Meaning and Matters of Context (2018) (0)
: Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier . Grant D. Jones. ; Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners between Two Wars . Paul Sullivan. (1991) (0)
6. Commensuration Maya As A Matrix Language (2019) (0)
Epilogue Full Circle (2019) (0)
Sentences, Speech Acts, and Utterances (2018) (0)
North American Formalism and the Problem of Meaning (2018) (0)
Beyond the Speaker and the Text (2018) (0)
Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us (review) (2010) (0)
The plurality of temporal reckoning among the Maya (2017) (0)
Meaning in History (2018) (0)
9. The Scripted Landscape (2019) (0)
The Language of Saussure (2018) (0)
Deixis and Pragmatics (2017) (0)
10. Petitions As Prayers In The Field Of Reducción (2019) (0)
7. The Grammar Of Reducción And The Art Of Speaking (2019) (0)
Context effects (2017) (0)
1. Introduction The Field Of Discourse Production (2019) (0)
2. Perpetual Reducción In A Land Of Frontiers (2019) (0)

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