RIP John Gumperz

[Michael H. Agar]

The NYT obit

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/education/john-j-gumperz-linguist-of-cultural-interchange-dies-at-91.html?src=twrhp



On Apr 2, 2013, at 2:13 AM, Colleen Cotter wrote:

> As Richard said, the first (non-Facebook) news came through via Jef Verschueren at IPrA. Below are links from Greg Myers (via the BAAL member list).
> 
> I was in John's last seminar in my first semester at Berkeley (playing hooky from the linguistics department), and have always appreciated his warmth and generosity as a scholar. (He came to my first-ever academic talk as a grad student at the BLS conference, and his smiling face was reassuring.) Marco Jacquemet's AAA panel last November brought so many of us who value the scholar and the person together. Thanks again, Marco and co.
> 
> Colleen Cotter
> Linguistics Department
> School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
> Queen Mary, University of London
> Mile End Road
> London E1 4NS
> UK
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from baal.chair at gmail.com -----
>    Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:57:20 +0100
>    From: BAAL Chair <baal.chair at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: BAAL Chair <baal.chair at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Baalmail] John J. Gumperz, 1922-2013
>      To: baalmail at lists.leeds.ac.uk
> 
> BAAL Members:
> 
> You may already have seen notices of the death of John Gumperz on 29 March
> in Santa Barbara.  His work had a great intellectual and personal influence
> on a number of members of BAAL, in such areas as interactional
> sociolinguistics, the ethnography of communication, communicative
> competence, intercultural communication, and many other fields.
> 
> There are some biographical materials here:
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/emeritus/gumperz/gumpbio.html
> 
> One recent set of scholarly tributes is here:
> http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.2011.31.issue-4/issue-files/text.2011.31.issue-4.xml
> 
> A more detailed obituary will follow.
> 
> Greg Myers
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
> Quoting Kerim Friedman <oxusnet at GMAIL.COM>:
> 
>> Dear List Members,
>> 
>> I'm sorry to report that John Gumperz died on March 29, 2013. This is
>> according to Facebook posts which (due to lack of search on Facebook) I
>> cannot now retrieve, but I see that Wikipedia has already been updated
>> (albeit without a citation). Google News does not yet turn up any
>> obituaries.
>> 
>> - Kerim
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> 
>> *P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 <http://kerim.oxus.net/>*
>> *
>> *
>> 
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Indigenous Cultures
>> College of Indigenous Studies
>> National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
>> 副教授國立東華大學民族文化學系
>> 
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