Mary Bucholtz   [website] Professor Sociocultural linguistics; language and identity; American English and Spanish Wallace Chafe   [website] Professor Emeritus Native American languages; discourse; prosody; language and thought; laughter Patricia M. Clancy [website] Associate Professor Department Chair Language acquisition; language socialization; Japanese/Korean linguistics; discourse and grammar Bernard Comrie   [website] Distinguished Faculty Professor Language universals and typology; historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus Melissa L. Curtin mlcurtin@linguistics.ucsb.edu Adjunct Assistant Professor Intercultural communication; theories of cultural adjustment; ethnography; language and identity; semiotic landscapes John W. Du Bois Professor Discourse and grammar; sociocultural linguistics; pragmatics; complexity; corpus linguistics; Mayan Jan Frodesen Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment Director English as a Second Language Program Second language writing; pedagogical grammar; teacher education Carol Genetti [website] Professor Himalayan languages; Rhaeto-Romance; clause linkage; typology; language documentation Roberta Gilman ESL Lecturer Matthew Gordon   [website] Professor Phonetics; phonology; typology Judy Gough ESL Lecturer Stefan Th. Gries   [website] Associate Professor Corpus linguistics; cognitive linguistics and construction grammar; computational linguistics Jeffrey Hanson ESL Lecturer Robert Kennedy   [website] Lecturer; ISBER Researcher Phonology; reduplication; morphology; phonetics; dialects of English; linguistics of sports Charles N. Li Professor Emeritus Evolutionary origin of language; animal communication; language and brain Marianne Mithun [website] Professor Morphology, syntax, discourse, and their interaction; contact; language change; typology; documentation; American Indian and Austronesian linguistics Randall Rightmire ESL Lecturer rightmire@linguistics.ucsb.edu Arthur Schwartz Professor Syntax, language and gender, language acquisition Sandra A. Thompson   [website] Professor Discourse and grammar, language universals, syntax, Chinese linguistics