Irvine, Judith T.

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Name (Latin)
Irvine, Judith T.
Date of birth
1945-03-10
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Anthropological linguistics
Linguistics--Africa
Occupation
Anthropologists
Anthropology teachers
Linguists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 27142531
Wikidata: Q24239051
Library of congress: n 91115573
Sources of Information
  • The politics of heritage in Africa, 2015:page xii (Judith T. Irvine; Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan; her work has focused on language and communication in social, cultural, and historical context; she has done fieldwork in Senegal; author of articles on the colonial history of African linguistics)
  • Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse, 1992:CIP t.p. (Judith T. Irvine, Brandeis University)
  • The psychology of culture, 1993:CIP t.p. (Judith T. Irvine) data sheet (b. 03-10-45)

Wikipedia description:

Judith Temkin Irvine (born March 10, 1945) is the Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she researches language use and social hierarchy in African social life. Irvine earned her Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Pennsylvania. She began teaching in 1972 in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1999. Irvine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005,. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

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