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Berkeley City College (BCC, formerly Vista Community College) is a public community college in Berkeley, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and the Peralta Community College District. Berkeley City College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. [2]
Keith Allan Johnson (born August 14, 1958) is an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.He graduated from Norman High in 1976, before getting his B.A. in Religion from Abilene Christian University. [1]
There he edited and contributed to many volumes in the Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics (SCOPIL) series. [4] He took up a position in UC-Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1988, where he served as chair of the department from 1991 to 2002. [5] [6] He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 2022.
Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929 – February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961.
He holds the Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. [1] Hanks earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. A student of Michael Silverstein, he received his Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Chicago. [2]
Bauer later received his Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 [3] and has taught linguistics at universities in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. [3] [4] In 1997, he relocated to Hong Kong permanently, just before the city's handover from British to Chinese sovereignty. [1]
He received an MPhil in English and applied linguistics from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2006 and a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, writing a dissertation entitled "First language phonetic drift during second language acquisition." [7]
In 1956 Gumperz joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he developed a new way of looking at sociolinguistics with Dell Hymes, also a scholar of sociolinguistics. Their contribution was a new method called the "ethnography of communication." Gumperz's own approach has been called interactional sociolinguistics.