Tag English (language)
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Cecilia Ford
Professor Emerita, English and sociology
Expert on sociolinguistics, specializing in conversation analysis, gender and language, and the uses of language in spoken interaction
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Robin Valenza
Associate professor, English
Expert on 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture, history of academic disciplines, digital humanities, graphic novel, 20th/21st-century comic books
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Anja Wanner
Professor, English
Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)
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Joan Hall
Chief Editor Emerita, Dictionary of American Regional English; Distinguished Scientist; English
Expert on the American English language and its regional and social dialects
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Thomas Purnell
Associate professor, English
Expert on sounds of human languages, specifically regional and ethnic pronunciation and differences by social groups