Roger Shuy | |
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Born | 1931 (age 91–92) |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | Sociolinguistics Forensic linguistics |
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Website | rogershuy |
Roger Wellington Shuy (born January 5,1931 in Akron,Ohio) [1] is an American linguist best known for his work in sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics. [2] [3] He received his BA from Wheaton College in 1952,his MA from Kent State University in 1954,and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 1962, [4] where he studied regional dialectology with Raven I. McDavid,Jr. Shuy took additional linguistic courses at the University of Michigan and Indiana University.
After teaching linguistics at Wheaton College (1958–1964) and Michigan State University (1964–1967),Shuy accepted a position at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington,D.C.,as head of its newly created program for studying urban language. [4] In 1968,Shuy moved to Georgetown University,where he founded and directed the Sociolinguistics Program and was full professor of linguistics until he retired from teaching in 1998 as Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics,Emeritus. [3] [5] [6] During his 30 years at Georgetown,Shuy helped create two new organizations,New Ways of Analyzing Variation and the American Association of Applied Linguistics,where he was its second president and was later given the award of Distinguished Scholarship and Service. [6] [7] [8] While at Georgetown,he also began a new phase of work on criminal and civil cases as a consultant and expert witness. [2] [6] Shuy first testified as a linguistics expert for the defendant in Texas v. T. Cullen Davis . [9] Shuy's 1979 testimony regarding undercover audio recordings led to Davis's acquittal.
After Shuy retired from teaching,he made his home among the mountains and rivers of Montana,where he continues to consult on law cases. [2] [3] Since 1998,Shuy has published fourteen books on forensic linguistics. [4] In all,Shuy has worked on some 500 law cases,testifying at trial in over fifty criminal and civil cases in 26 states,four times before the U.S. Congress,and twice before the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. [5] [6] Among his most famous criminal cases were the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Abscam bribery investigation of New Jersey Senator Harrison A. Williams,the narcotics investigation of automobile manufacturer John Z. DeLorean,and many cases involving prominent politicians and businessmen. [10] He has written extensively about many of these cases in his books and journal articles. In 2009,he was elected Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America. [11]
Thomas Cullen Davis is an American former oil tycoon who is best known for being acquitted of murder and attempted murder in two high-profile trials during the 1970s. At the time of his first trial,Davis was believed to be the wealthiest man to have stood trial for murder in the United States.
Gregory Riordan Guy is a linguist who specializes in the study of language variation and language diversity,including sociolinguistics,historical linguistics,phonetics,and phonology. He has a particular interest in the Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish languages.
Jason Stanley is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is best known for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology,which often draw upon and influence other fields,including linguistics and cognitive science. He has written for a popular audience on the New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone". In his more recent work,Stanley has brought tools from philosophy of language and epistemology to bear on questions of political philosophy,especially in his 2015 book How Propaganda Works.
Walt Wolfram is an American sociolinguist specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English. He was one of the early pioneers in the study of urban African American English through his work in Detroit in 1969. He is the William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) is an annual academic conference in sociolinguistics. NWAV attracts researchers and students conducting linguistic scientific investigations into patterns of language variation,the study of language change in progress,and the interrelationship between language and society,including how language variation is shaped by and continually shapes societal institutions,social and interpersonal relationships,and individual and group identities.
Rena Torres Cacoullos is an American linguist known for her work on language variation and change,as well as her research on processes of grammaticalization and the linguistic outcomes of language contact. She is currently Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish,Italian,and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University.
Shuy is a village in Shuy Rural District,in the Central District of Baneh County,Kurdistan Province,Iran. At the 2006 census,its population was 1,424,in 300 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
Shobhana Chelliah is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of Research and Advancement at the College of Information,University of North Texas. Her research focuses on the documentation of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India. She was a Program Director for the US National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered Languages Program from 2012-2015. She is currently partnering with individuals and academic institutions in India to create a state-of-the-art archive for the long term preservation and access of language documentation materials. This archive,the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages,is housed at the University of North Texas Digital Library. Chelliah’s 2022 Fulbright-Nehru fellowship is dedicated to development of these partnerships. Her publications include A Grammar of Meithei and The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork as well as articles on Tibeto-Burman differential case marking and language contact,many of which she has co-authored with her students. She is working with Political Scientists James Meernik and Kimi King to create interdisciplinary frameworks to understand threats to language vitality. With health information expert Sara Champlain and phonologist Kelly Berkson,she is working to bring culturally-framed COVID information to underserved populations in the United States. With computational linguist,Alexis Palmer,she is working on discovering differential marking patterns through cross language comparison. These three projects are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Michael R. Dreeben is a former Deputy Solicitor General who was in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice criminal docket before the United States Supreme Court. He is recognized as an expert in U.S. criminal law.
James R. Fitzgerald is an American criminal profiler,forensic linguist,and author. He is a retired FBI agent and best known for his role in the UNABOM investigation,which resulted in the arrest and conviction of Ted Kaczynski.
Francis X. Katamba is a Ugandan-born British linguist. He is currently an emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. His research focuses on Luganda phonology and morphology,English phonology and morphology,morphological theory,phonological theory,and African linguistics.
Gretchen McCulloch is a Canadian linguist. On her blog,as well as her podcast Lingthusiasm she offers linguistic analysis of online communication such as internet memes,emoji and instant messaging. She writes regularly for Wired and previously did so for The Toast. In 2019,she published a book on internet linguistics,Because Internet:Understanding the New Rules of Language.
Marcia Elizabeth Farr is an American sociolinguist and ethnographer;she is an Emerita Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago,as well as an Emerita Professor of Education and English at the Ohio State University.
Harvey Rishikof is an American lawyer who was the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commission in 2017 and early 2018.
John Gordon Baugh V is an American academic and linguist. His main areas of study are sociolinguistics,forensic linguistics,education,and African American language studies. He is currently the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis,Professor Emeritus at Stanford University,and President of the Linguistic Society of America. In 2020 Baugh was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the section on Linguistics and Language Sciences,and in 2021 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Maria Fernanda Ferreira is a cognitive psychologist known for empirical investigations in psycholinguistics and language processing. Ferreira is Professor of Psychology and the Principal investigator of the Ferreira Lab at University of California,Davis.
William Shi-Yuan Wang is a linguist,with expertise in phonology,the history of Chinese language and culture,historical linguistics,and the evolution of language in humans. He is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Emeritus Professor of the University of California,Berkeley,and Academician of Academia Sinica.
Jasone Cenoz is a professor of education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) University of the Basque Country in Donostia-San Sebastian,Spain since 2004. From 2000 to 2004 she was Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Her research focuses on multilingual education,bilingualism and multilingualism. She is known for her work on the influence of bilingualism on third language acquisition,pedagogical translanguaging,linguistic landscape,minority languages and Content and Language Integrated Learning.
Ingrid Piller is an Australian linguist,who specializes in intercultural communication,language learning,multilingualism,and bilingual education. Piller is Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Piller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Multilingua and as founding editor of the research dissemination site Language on the Move. She is a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts.
Helen Hastie is a professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh and a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. She specialises in Human-Robot Interaction and Multimodal interfaces. Hastie has undertaken projects such as AI personal assistants for remote robots,autonomous systems and spoken dialogue systems for sectors in defence and energy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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