Bambi Schieffelin
{{short description|American linguist}}
Bambi B. Schieffelin (born April 26, 1945) is a linguistic anthropologist and professor emerita at New York University (NYU) in the department of Anthropology.{{Cite web |title=Bambi Schieffelin |url=https://as.nyu.edu/departments/anthropology/people/retired-and-emeritus-faculty/bambi-schieffelin.html |access-date=2023-02-18 |website=as.nyu.edu}} Along with Elinor Ochs, she pioneered the field of language socialization.{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-socialization-across-cultures/EFFEC1798E06EDF3C89940150139E28F|title=Language Socialization across Cultures|date=1987|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-33919-3|editor-last=Schieffelin|editor-first=Bambi B.|series=Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language|location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511620898|editor-last2=Ochs|editor-first2=Elinor}} In addition, she has written extensively about language contact, language ideology, literacy, Haitian Creole, and missionization.{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar - Bambi Schieffelin |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,32&q=bambi+schieffelin&oq=bambi+sch |access-date=2023-02-18 |website=scholar.google.com}}
Education and research
She received an undergraduate degree from Bennington College in 1967,{{Cite web |title=Class of 1967, 50th Reunion, Bennington College |url=https://www.bennington.edu/sites/default/files/sources/docs/Class67_InMemoryBook_0.pdf |access-date=February 17, 2023}} undergraduate and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Columbia University, and masters and postdoctorate in developmental psychology. Her 1979 Columbia PhD dissertation is entitled, "How Kaluli Children Learn What to Say, What to Do,and How to Feel: An Ethnographic Study of the Development of Communicative Competence."{{Cite web |title=Chronologically {{!}} Alumni {{!}} Anthropology and Education {{!}} International & Transcultural Studies {{!}} Teachers College, Columbia University |url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/international-and-transcultural-studies/anthropology-and-education/alumni/chronologically/ |access-date=2023-02-18 |website=Teachers College - Columbia University |language=en}}
She held a faculty position in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education until 1986, when she was denied tenure within the context of an alleged culture of sexism and personal vendettas influencing decisions at the school.{{Cite web|url=https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&d=tdp19860328-01.2.6&srpos=21&e=------198-en-20--21--txt-txIN-hymes------|title=The Daily Pennsylvanian 28 March 1986 — Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives}} Several other faculty members (including William Labov, Lila R. Gleitman, Fred L. Block, and Frank Furstenberg) severed ties with the School of Education to protest her tenure denial, citing her "international reputation" and "work... of the highest quality".{{cite news|first=Jeffrey|last=Goldberg|title=Faculty members sever ties with School of Education|date=March 28, 1986|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian|accessdate=2020-07-15|url=https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&d=tdp19860328-01.2.6&srpos=21&e=------198-en-20--21--txt-txIN-hymes------}} After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, she took up a position at NYU, where she remained until her retirement.
She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, often in collaboration with ethnomusicologist Steven Feld. Together they compiled a dictionary of Kaluli, a Bosavi language.
She has also researched youth language use in instant messaging and text messaging, particularly the use of the word like.{{Cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Graham M.|last2=Schieffelin|first2=Bambi B.|date=2009-07-01|title=Talking Text and Talking Back: "My Bff Jill" from Boob Tube to YouTube|journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|volume=14|issue=4|pages=1050–1079|doi=10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01481.x|issn=1083-6101|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last=Schieffelin|first=Bambi|date=January 2009|title=Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be + like in Instant Messaging|journal=Language & Communication|volume=29|issue=1|pages=77–113|doi=10.1016/j.langcom.2007.09.003}} She has published on the linguistic aspects evidentiality, focusing on how children learn culturally appropriate ways of referencing sources of knowledge.{{Cite journal|last=Schieffelin|first=Bambi B.|date=2021|title=Language Socialisation in the Papuan context|url=https://psyarxiv.com/jp7tn/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-01|website=psyarxiv.com|doi=10.31234/osf.io/jp7tn|s2cid=245135185 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213042725/https://psyarxiv.com/jp7tn/ |archive-date=2021-12-13 }}
Selected works
- Miki Makihara & Bambi Schieffelin, eds. 2007. Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies.OUP. {{ISBN|9780195324983}}
- Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity, eds. 1998. Language Ideologies. OUP. {{ISBN|9780195105629}}
- Bambi B. Schieffelin. 2005. The Give and Take of Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9780521386548}}
References
External links
- [https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/anthropology/people/retired-and-emeritus-faculty/bambi-schieffelin.html Schieffelin's home page]
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