LISO Faculty

LISO Language, Interaction, and Social Organization

Below is a list of the LISO faculty and their areas of interest and specializations. Click on names of faculty to go to their departmental web pages for further contact information.

Participating Departments
Department of Linguistics
Department of Sociology
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Charles Bazerman, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

teaching of writing
writing in the disciplines
history of literacy genre theory
activity theory
genre theory

Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics

bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu

sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
language and gender
African American English discourse

Patricia Clancy, Department of Linguistics

pclancy@linguistics.ucsb.edu

psycholinguistics
child language
discourse
Japanese and Korean linguistics

Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

cook-gumperz@education.ucsb.edu

Sociology of Education
sociolinguistics and literacy
gender socialization

John W. Du Bois, Department of Linguistics

dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu

linguistic anthropology
interactional linguistics
stance
dialogic syntax
spoken corpus construction / English corpus linguistics
Mayan linguistics

John J. Gumperz, Professor Emeritus Anthropology, UC Berkeley

gumperz@education.ucsb.edu

Sociolinguistics,
linguistic anthropology,
urban anthropology,
discourse analysis; India, Northwestern Europe, U.S.

Amy Kyratzis, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

kyratzis@education.ucsb.edu

language and communicative development
gender differences in langauge and cognition
language Socialization
cognitive science

Gene Lerner, Department of Sociology

lerner@soc.ucsb.edu

conversation analysis
social aspects of grammar
social life of very young children

Jason Raley, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

raley@education.ucsb.edu

trusting relations, social differences
learning
education
cognitive science

Geoffrey Raymond, Department of Sociology

graymond@soc.ucsb.edu

the organization of talk in interaction
sociology of science and technology
sociology of mass communication

Sandra A. Thompson, Department of Linguistics

sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu

interactional linguistics
emergent grammar
interaction and grammar

Tom Wilson, Department of Sociology

wilson@soc.ucsb.edu

conversation analysis
ethnomethodology
interaction and social structure

Don Zimmerman, Department of Sociology

dzimmerman@soc.ucsb.edu

conversation analysis
emergency calls to the police
social life of very young children
talk and identity