Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi Schieffelin (April 26, 1945- ) is a linguistic anthropologist at New York University in the department of Anthropology. She has written extensively about language socialization, language contact, language ideology, Haitian Creole, and missionization.

She received her undergraduate and doctorate degrees from Columbia University, in anthropology and masters and postdoctorate in developmental psychology.

She held a faculty position in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education until 1986, when she was denied tenure. Several other faculty members (including William Labov, Lila R. Gleitman, Fred L. Block, and Frank Furstenberg) severed ties with the School of Education to protest her tenure denial, citing her "international reputation" and "work... of the highest quality".[1]

She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, and compiled a dictionary of Kaluli, a Bosavi language.

She has recently researched youth language use in instant messaging and text messaging, particularly the use of the word like. She is currently interested in the linguistic aspects of the Lolcat phenomenon.[2]

Selected works
  • 2007 Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies [3]
  • 1998 Language Ideologies [4]
  • 2005 The Give and Take of Everyday Life [5]

References
  1. Goldberg, Jeffrey (March 28, 1986). "Faculty members sever ties with School of Education". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  2. Schieffelin, Bambi (January 2009). "Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be + like in Instant Messaging". Language & Communication. 29 (1): 77–113. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2007.09.003.
  3. Schieffelin, Bambi and Miki Makihara, ed. (2007). Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532498-3.
  4. Schieffelin, Bambi (1998). Language Ideologies. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510561-2.
  5. Schieffelin, Bambi (2005). The Give and Take of Everyday Life. City: Fenestra Books. ISBN 1-58736-440-9.
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