Joel Sherzer

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Joel Sherzer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Joel Fred Sherzer was an American anthropological linguist known for his research with the Guna people of Panama and his focus on verbal art and discourse-centered approaches to linguistic research. He co-founded the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Sherzer completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and thereafter taught at the University of Texas at Austin for his entire career.

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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking (1975) (370)
Discourse‐Centered Approach to Language and Culture (1987) (317)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION (1989) (222)
Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective (1984) (162)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Index of names (1989) (151)
Nation-States and Indians in Latin America (1992) (119)
Verbal and nonverbal deixis: the pointed lip gesture among the San Blas Cuna (1973) (91)
The Ethnography of Speaking (1975) (84)
Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics (1985) (80)
Native American Discourse: Poetics and Rhetoric (1988) (71)
Speech play and verbal art (2002) (69)
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse (1993) (61)
Discourse Forms and Processes in Indigenous Lowland South America: An Areal-Typological Perspective (2002) (57)
Native South American Discourse (1986) (55)
Talking Backwards in Cuna: The Sociological Reality of Phonological Descriptions (1970) (53)
Poetic structuring of Kuna discourse: The line (1982) (52)
Nationstates and Indians in Latin America. (1992) (50)
“Oh! That’s a pun and I didn't mean it” (1978) (50)
Language, gender, and sex in comparative perspective: A diversity of voices: men's and women's speech in ethnographic perspective (1987) (43)
Areal Linguistics in North America (1976) (36)
1. Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics (1976) (31)
The Brazilian Thumbs‐Up Gesture (1991) (30)
On puns, comebacks, verbal dueling, and play languages: Speech play in Balinese verbal life (1993) (29)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Namakke, Sunmakke, Kormakke : Three Types of Cuna Speech Event (1989) (29)
THE LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIVE SOUTH AMERICA (1988) (22)
Friend Hairyfish and Friend Rattlesnake, or, Keeping Anthropologists in Their Place (1986) (16)
Translating native Latin American verbal art : ethnopoetics and ethnography of speaking (2000) (14)
Areal Studies and Culture History: Language as a Key to the Historical Study of Culture Contact (1972) (14)
Areal Linguistic Studies in North America: A Historical Perspective (1971) (13)
The Kuna and Columbus: Encounters and Confrontations of Discourse (1994) (12)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Notes (1989) (12)
To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia (1989) (12)
Humor and Comedy in Puppetry: Celebration in Popular Culture (1987) (12)
Language, Context, and the Imagination: Essays (1979) (12)
The Intersection of Music and Language in Kuna Discourse (1982) (11)
take and tell: a practical classification from the San Blas Cuna (1975) (10)
Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Linguistic Anthropology (2015) (9)
Pointed lips, thumbs up, and cheek puffs: some emblematic gestures in social interactional and ethnographic context (1993) (8)
Ceremonial dialogic greetings among the Kuna Indians of Panama (1999) (8)
Strategies in Text and Context: Cuna kaa kwento (1979) (6)
Adoring the Saints: Fiestas in Central Mexico (2009) (5)
The Kuna verb: a study in the interplay of grammar, discourse, and style (1989) (5)
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview (2013) (5)
Tellings, Retellings, and Tellings Within Tellings: The Structuring and Organization of Narrative in Kuna Indian Discourse. Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number 83. (1981) (5)
On Linguistic Semantics and Linguistics Subdisiplines: A Review Article Studies in Linguistic Semantics by Charles J. Fillmore; D. Terrence Langendoen; Linguistics: Developments of the Sixties: View-Points for the Seventiies by Richard J. O'Brien (1973) (4)
The Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great Basin: 1964. Warren L. d'Azevedo , Wilbur A. Davis , Don D. Fowler , Wayne Suttles (1968) (4)
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourses (1999) (3)
Kuna stories, myths, chants, and songs. From the gathering house to the internet (2014) (3)
Vowel Nasalization in Eastern Algonquian: An Areal-Typological Perspective on Linguistics Universals (1972) (3)
E. Ardener, ed., Social Anthropology and Language (1972) (2)
Transcreating culture and poetics (1998) (2)
Lines in Nanti karintaa chants: An areal poetic typological perspective (An essay in honor of Joel Sherzer) (2019) (2)
On Linguistic Semantics and Linguistic Subdisciplines: A Review Article (1973) (2)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Introduction (1989) (1)
Semantic Systems, Discourse Structure, and the Ecology of Language. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 17. (1974) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Ethnic Humor around the World: A Comparative Analysis. Christie Davies. (1991) (1)
W. John Smith, The behavior of communicating. An ethnological approach . Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. viii+545. (1978) (1)
Addendum: Areal Linguistic Studies in North America: A Historical Perspective (1971) (1)
Language and Ecology : The View from the Kuna Indians of Panama (2002) (1)
Système de la mode en darien: Towards a Semiotic Analysis of Cuna Molas (1979) (1)
Dell H. Hymes: An intellectual sketch (2010) (1)
Language, Culture, and Discourse (1986) (1)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Preface (1989) (1)
Index to Volume 24, 1995 (1995) (0)
Passive Constructions in Kuna: Form and Function (2013) (0)
A Who's Who of Sociolinguistics@@@Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics (1986) (0)
LSY volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
Linguistics: Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 11: Presupposition. Choon‐Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen (1980) (0)
Stodies: *Cultural Differenc4s; Cultural Facttra: Culture Conflict: *Discourse Analysis: Ethnicity: *Ethnic Stereotypes: Language Skills: *Literacy: (2007) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
Index to Volume 25, 1998 (1996) (0)
K. R. Scherer & H. Giles, eds., Social Markers in Speech (1980) (0)
SPONS AGENCY PUB DATE NOTE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME FL 009 529 Labov , William Where Does the Linguistic Variable Stop ? A Response to (2011) (0)
Tradition and Change in Language and Discourse: Three Case Studies (2006) (0)
Society for Latin American Anthropology: Archive of Indigenous Languages (2000) (0)
The Spirit of Kuna Yala. 1990. A film by Andrew Young and Susan Todd. (1992) (0)
Community, institution, and identity in the chamorro speech community: an ethnographic study of how they shape information-seeking discourse in the library (2000) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
David Lee, Competing discourses: Perspective and ideology in language . London: Longman, 1992. Pp. xiii + 210. (1993) (0)
Richard Bauman y Joel Sherzer (comps.). Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Nueva York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. 501 p. (1992) (0)
List of Photographs (2004) (0)
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America ( www . ailJa . org ) (2009) (0)
LSY volume 38 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
Speech play in Balinese verbal life (2016) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction. ESTHER N. GOODY (1980) (0)
Editor’s Column (2014) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
Linguistics: The Sociology of Language. An Interdisciplinary Social Science Approach to Language in Society. JOSHUA A. FISHMAN (1974) (0)
Retellings , and Tellings Within Tailings : The Structuring and Organization of Narrative in Kuna Indian Discourse . Sociolinguistic Working Paper (2007) (0)
Guide to Tape Selections (1986) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
IN MEMORIUM: William Bright (2007) (0)
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: References (1989) (0)
Universals of linguistic structure: A north American Indian perspective (1977) (0)
LSY volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
Linguistics: Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia.Colin P. Masica (1978) (0)
Emily A. Schultz., Dialogue at the Margins. Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic Relativity (1994) (0)
Reply to Bierhorst (1979) (0)
Linguistics:Variation and Linguistic Theory. CHARLES-JAMES H. BAILEY (1975) (0)

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