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Apr 26, 1945 79 years old
American linguist
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About 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 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.
