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According to Wikipedia, John Joseph Gumperz was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research on the languages of India, on code-switching in Norway, and on conversational interaction, has benefitted the study of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and urban anthropology.

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John J. Gumperz's Published Works

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Discourse strategies: Subject index (1982) (2534)
Directions in sociolinguistics;: The ethnography of communication (1973) (1560)
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (1991) (1042)
Language and social identity: Author index (1983) (695)
Linguistic and Social Interaction in Two Communities1 (1964) (651)
Contextualization and Understanding (1989) (588)
Discourse strategies: Introduction (1982) (545)
Language and social identity: Introduction: language and the communication of social identity (1983) (307)
The Sociolinguistic Significance of Conversational Code-Switching (1977) (277)
Language in Social Groups. (1974) (272)
Transcribing conversational exchanges (1990) (187)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino-American communication (1994) (169)
The Speech Community (2009) (160)
Language and Social Identity (1983) (156)
Discourse strategies: Prosody in conversation (1982) (127)
Discourse strategies: Conversational code switching (1982) (123)
Individual and Social Differences in Language Use (1979) (120)
Discourse Strategies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 1) (1986) (114)
Engager la conversation : introduction à la sociolinguistique interactionnelle (1989) (105)
Dialect Differences and Social Stratification in a North Indian Village - eScholarship (1958) (104)
Sociocultural dimensions of language use (1977) (102)
Understanding in intercultural encounters (1991) (97)
Sociolinguistics and Communication in Small Groups. (1970) (96)
Making Space for Bilingual Communicative Practice (2005) (90)
Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective (2015) (87)
TYPES OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES (2016) (86)
On the Linguistic Markers of Bilingual Communication (1967) (83)
Verbal Strategies in Multilingual Communication. (1970) (73)
Studying language, culture, and society : Sociolinguistics or linguistic anthropology? (2008) (68)
Invisible Careers: Women Civic Leaders from the Volunteer World. (1989) (62)
The Social Construction of Literacy: Interactional sociolinguistics in the study of schooling (2006) (61)
The Ethnography of Communication (1966) (60)
Introduction: Linguistic relativity re-examined (1996) (59)
Sociolinguistique interactionnelle : une approche interpretative (1989) (57)
Sociocultural dimensions of language change (1977) (56)
Communicative competence revisited (1984) (54)
Speech Variation and the Study of Indian Civilization1 (1961) (53)
Discourse strategies / John J. Gumperz (1992) (50)
Language, Communication, and Public Negotiation (1976) (49)
The communicative competence of bilinguals: some hypotheses and suggestions for research (1972) (44)
Language and social identity: Fact and inference in courtroom testimony (1983) (44)
Language in social groups : essays (1971) (38)
Thematic structure and progression in discourse (1983) (35)
Linguistic Diversity in South Asia: Studies in Regional, Social and Functional Variation (1960) (34)
The Retrieval of Socio-Cultural Knowledge in Conversation (1979) (33)
Contextualization and Ideology in Intercultural Communication (2001) (31)
Cognitive Aspects of Bilingual Communication. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 28. (1969) (31)
Dialect and conversational inference in urban communication (1978) (30)
Papers on Language and Context. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 46. (1976) (29)
Social meaning in linguistic structure: code-switching in Norway (2020) (29)
Discourse strategies: Socio-cultural knowledge in conversational inference (1982) (28)
Discourse strategies: Preface (1982) (27)
Language Problems in the Rural Development of North India (1957) (26)
Discourse strategies: Social network and language shift (1982) (26)
Children's Discourse and Inferential Practices in Cooperative Learning. (1995) (24)
Language and Communication (1967) (19)
The Sociolinguistics Of Interpersonal Communication (1974) (18)
ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE (1985) (18)
Discourse strategies: Contextualization conventions (1982) (17)
Narrative Accounts in Gatekeeping Interviews: Intercultural Differences or Common Misunderstandings? (2002) (15)
Religion and Social Communication in Village North India (1964) (14)
Linguistic Anthropology in Society (1974) (14)
Language and social identity: Interethnic communication in committee negotiations (1983) (12)
Culture and conversational inference (1993) (12)
The politics of a conversation : conversational inference in discussion (1984) (11)
Treacherous Words: Gender and Power in Academic Assessment (1996) (11)
Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication (2012) (11)
Dialect Differences and Social Stratification in a North Indian Village 1 (2008) (11)
Phonological Differences in Three Hindi Dialects (1958) (11)
1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, selected 1-7. (2014) (10)
Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews (1997) (10)
On the interactional bases of speech community membership (1997) (9)
Sociolinguistics in South Asia (1971) (9)
Language in social groups : Essays / John J. Gumperz (1971) (9)
Conversational Cooperation in Social Perspective (1990) (9)
Discourse strategies: Interethnic communication (1982) (8)
The Communicative Bases of Social Inequality (1983) (8)
SOME SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR. WORKING PAPER NUMBER 4. (1968) (7)
Chapter 3. Interethnic Communication (2008) (6)
COMMENTARY: FRAMES AND CONTEXTS: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MACRO- MICRO LINK (2012) (5)
Changing Views of Language in Education and the Implications for Literacy Research: An Interactional Sociological Perspective. Occasional Paper No. 23. (1990) (5)
Discourse strategies: Ethnic style in political rhetoric (1982) (5)
From Oral to Written Culture: The Transition : Literacy (2013) (5)
Prosody, Linguistic Diffusion and Conversational Inference (1980) (4)
5 Communicative Competence (1997) (4)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Mistaking turns (1994) (3)
Conversational Hindi-Urdu (1967) (3)
8. Response essay (2003) (3)
Interethnic discourse (1983) (2)
Discourse Strategies@@@Language and Social Identity (1984) (2)
LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL IN NORTH INDIA. WORKING PAPER NUMBER 7. (1968) (2)
Foreword: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change (1977) (2)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Foreword by John J. Gumperz (1994) (2)
COGNITIVE COSTS OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION : THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH (2016) (2)
The public face of language: Why spelling matters (2012) (2)
CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU, VOLUME 2. (1963) (1)
Minority Demands, Majority Reactions? (1983) (1)
Concluding Remarks: Concluding Remarks (2013) (1)
The Domestication of the Savage Mind . Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, 167 pp. (1979) (0)
CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU, VOLUME 1, PART 2. (1962) (0)
Learning to speak Greenlandic : A case study of a two-year-old ' s morphology in a polysynthetic language (2016) (0)
Language and social identity: Bibliography (1983) (0)
MATERIALS FOR ELEMENTARY READINGS IN MODERN TELUGU, PRELIMINARY VERSION. (1961) (0)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Deceptive cause (1994) (0)
Means of Increasing the Student’s Use of Vernaculars in His Area Studies (1962) (0)
Prosody in conversation: Foreword by John J. Gumperz (1996) (0)
Studies in the Acquisition of Communicative Competence. Final Report. (1970) (0)
Language and social identity: A note on conventions (1983) (0)
Multicultural Discourse@@@Discourse Strategies@@@Language and Social Identity (1987) (0)
Language and social identity: Preface (1983) (0)
Discourse strategies: Postscript (1982) (0)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Parting words (1994) (0)
Discourse strategies: A note on conventions (1982) (0)
Discourse strategies: Bibliography (1982) (0)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Missing links (1994) (0)
Time of life. Women’s narratives of decision-making at mid-life (2012) (0)
The Ps and cues of Chinese inscrutability (1994) (0)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Effacing talk (1994) (0)
Games Politicians Play (2012) (0)
The Language Problem in South Asian Studies (1961) (0)
The Content of the First- and Second-Year Language Course (1960) (0)
Crosstalk and culture in Sino–American communication: Backforwardly speaking (1994) (0)
A BRIEF HINDI REFERENCE GRAMMAR. PRELIMINARY VERSION. (1963) (0)
The public face of language (2012) (0)

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