John R. Rickford

John R. Rickford
Rickford speaks as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016
Born
John Russell Rickford

(1949-09-16) September 16, 1949 (age 75)
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz;
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Academic and author
EmployerStanford University

John Russell Rickford (born September 16, 1949[1][2]) is a Guyanese–American academic and author. Rickford is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University's Department of Linguistics and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he has taught since 1980.[3] His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford,[4] won the American Book Award in 2000.[5]

  1. ^ Rickford, John R. "CURRICULUM VITAE: JOHN R. RICKFORD (November 2011)" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Inside Cover of Rickford, J. R. (1999) African American Vernacular English. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc.
  3. ^ Staff. "John R. Rickford. Professor of Linguistics. Stanford University". Stanford University. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  4. ^ Wagner, Venise (April 30, 2000). "Father and son authors make case for acceptance of Ebonics". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  5. ^ American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013. 2000 [...] Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford