Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi B. Schieffelin (April 26, 1945- ) is a linguistic anthropologist and professor emerita at New York University in the department of Anthropology. Along with Elinor Ochs, she pioneered the field of language socialization.[1] In addition, she has written extensively about language contact, language ideology, literacy, Haitian Creole, and missionization.

She received her undergraduate and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Columbia University, and masters and postdoctorate in developmental psychology.

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.[2] 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".[3]

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 recently researched youth language use in instant messaging and text messaging, particularly the use of the word like.[4][5] She is currently interested in the linguistic aspects evidentiality, focusing on how children learn culturally appropriate ways of referencing sources of knowledge.[6]

Selected works
  • 2007 Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies [7]
  • 1998 Language Ideologies [8]
  • 2005 The Give and Take of Everyday Life [9]

References
  1. Schieffelin, Bambi B.; Ochs, Elinor, eds. (1987). Language Socialization across Cultures. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620898. ISBN 978-0-521-33919-3.
  2. "The Daily Pennsylvanian 28 March 1986 — Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives".
  3. Goldberg, Jeffrey (March 28, 1986). "Faculty members sever ties with School of Education". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  4. Jones, Graham M.; Schieffelin, Bambi B. (2009-07-01). "Talking Text and Talking Back: "My Bff Jill" from Boob Tube to YouTube". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 14 (4): 1050–1079. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01481.x. ISSN 1083-6101.
  5. Schieffelin, Bambi (January 2009). "Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be + like in Instant Messaging". Language & Communication. 29 (1): 77–113. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2007.09.003.
  6. Schieffelin, Bambi B. (2021). "Language Socialisation in the Papuan context". psyarxiv.com. doi:10.31234/osf.io/jp7tn. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  7. Schieffelin, Bambi and Miki Makihara, ed. (2007). Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532498-3.
  8. Schieffelin, Bambi (1998). Language Ideologies. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510561-2.
  9. Schieffelin, Bambi (2005). The Give and Take of Everyday Life. City: Fenestra Books. ISBN 1-58736-440-9.
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