People

LISO Faculty, Visiting Scholars & Alumni

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.

Emeriti

John J. Gumperz
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Department of Anthropology
  • UC Berkeley

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

Sandra A. Thompson
  • Department of Linguistics

interactional linguistics, emergent grammar, interaction and grammar

sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/thompson.html
Tom Wilson
  • Department of Sociology

conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, interaction and social structure

wilson@soc.ucsb.edu
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty.htm
Don Zimmerman
  • Department of Sociology

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

dzimmerman@soc.ucsb.edu
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/zimmerman.htm