Shirley brice heath biography examples

American linguist (born 1939)

Shirley Brice Heath (born July 26, 1939) is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University.^[1]

She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D.

Shirley brice heath biography examples

in 1970. She is a Brown University professor-at-large,^[2] and a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute.^[3][4]

Awards

Ways With Words: Language, Life, And Work In Communities And Classrooms

Shirley Brice Heath is best known as an anthropologist for her ethnographical work in * Ways with Words: Language, Life, And Work In Communities And Classrooms, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0-521-27319-0.^[6] She spent nine years,1969-1978, performing a cross cultural, ethnographical comparison of language practices between two small communities,Trackton and Roadville.

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