John J. Gumperz is a Professor at the University of California at Berkley. He has been writing and lecturing for many years on various subjects including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology and discourse analysis. He has studied areas from India to northwestern Europe and the United States. He has attainted the status of Professor Emeritus at Berkley.
His list of contributions to different publications is quite extensive. This list includes: Current Anthropology, Berkeley Cognitive Science Report, Interethnic Discourse Society, Contemporary Sociology, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, American Speech, and the American Journal of Sociology. This list is matched only by contributions to textbooks and other books. His own list of books includes Discourse Strategies, Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior, Language, Communication, and Public Negotiation, and Directions in Sociolinguistics (with Dell Hymes (eds.)). His first publication was in 1955 and called The Phonology of a North Indian Village Dialect. It was published in Indian Linguistics 16: 283-295, a subject he worked with throughout his career. Perhaps one of his most famous works is called Crosstalk that aired on the BBC television network in May 1, 1979. Crosstalk confronted the issue of miscommunication because of racial differences in the workplace. Professor Gumperz also later worked on the issue of miscommunication in an academic setting based on gender.
Former Link, http://www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/research.htm (October 2006)
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Written by: Billy Pierce