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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
photo of Jan Frodesen 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
photo of Roberta Gilman Roberta Gilman
ESL Lecturer
Matthew Gordon   [website]
Professor

Phonetics; phonology; typology
photo of Judy Gough Judy Gough
ESL Lecturer
Stefan Th. Gries   [website]
Associate Professor

Corpus linguistics; cognitive linguistics and construction grammar; computational linguistics
photo of Jeffrey Hanson 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
photo of Randall Rightmire 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