John W Du Bois is a professor of
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
at
University of California, Santa Barbara
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.
He is specialised in
discourse
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. ...
and
grammar
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structure, structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clause (linguistics), clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraint ...
, sociocultural linguistics,
linguistic anthropology
Linguistic anthropology is the Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past cen ...
,
spoken corpus linguistics,
Mayan linguistics, English
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
, and
evolutionary linguistics.
Du Bois is a key figure in research on
stance
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*Stance (American football), the position an American football player adopts when a play begins
* Stance (martial arts), the distribution, foot orientation and body positions adopted when attacking, defending, advancin ...
,
dialogic syntax,
argument
An argument is a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion. Arguments can be studied from three main perspectives: the logical, the dialectic ...
structure, referential pragmatics and discourse representation. Du Bois is the Director of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, comprising transcriptions, audio, and timestamps which correlate transcription and audio at the level of individual
intonation units.
Further reading
*2014 Du Bois, John W. "Towards a Dialogic Syntax". ''Cognitive Linguistics'' 25(3): 359–410.
*2012 Du Bois, John W. & Kärkkäinen, Elise. "Taking a Stance on Emotion: Affect, Sequence, and Intersubjectivity in Dialogic Interaction". ''Text and Talk'' 32(4): 433–451.
*2007 Du Bois, John W. "The Stance Triangle". ''Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction'', ed. by Robert Englebretson, 139-182. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
*2003 Du Bois, John W. "Discourse and Grammar". ''The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure'', Vol. 2, ed. by
Michael Tomasello, 47-87. London: Erlbaum.
References
External links
Google Scholar profileJohn W. Du Bois (faculty member, UCSB Linguistics Dept.)Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
Living people
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Linguists from the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
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