RIP John Gumperz

[Janina Fenigsen]

Rest in peace, outstanding scholar and wonderful human being


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Michael H. Agar <magar at umd.edu> wrote:

> The NYT obit
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/education/john-j-gumperz-linguist-of-cultural-interchange-dies-at-91.html?src=twrhp
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> On Apr 2, 2013, at 2:13 AM, Colleen Cotter wrote:
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> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> *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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