| Date of Birth | 09-January-1922 |
| Place of Birth |
Hattingen (Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Also know as | John Gumperz, Hans-Josef Gumperz |
| John Joseph Gumperz was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California in 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. | |
Awards by John J. Gumperz |
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