Sandra Thompson (linguist)

Sandra Thompson
Born (1941-07-06) July 6, 1941 (age 83)
Known forRhetorical structure theory
Academic background
Alma materOhio State University
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineDiscourse analysis, typology, interactional linguistics
Institutions

Sandra Annear Thompson (born July 6, 1941) is an American linguist specializing in discourse analysis, typology, and interactional linguistics.[1] She is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She has published numerous books, her research has appeared in many linguistics journals,[2] and she serves on the editorial board of several prominent linguistics journals.

  1. ^ "Sandra A. Thompson". UCSB Linguistics. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "Sandra Thompson Google Scholar citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved December 14, 2018.