Shana Poplack CM FRSC | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist, University Professor |
Shana Poplack, CM FRSC is a Distinguished University Professor in the linguistics department of the University of Ottawa and three time holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Linguistics. She is a leading proponent of variation theory,[1] the approach to language science pioneered by William Labov. She has extended the methodology and theory of this field into bilingual speech patterns, the prescription-praxis dialectic in the co-evolution of standard and non-standard languages, and the comparative reconstruction of ancestral speech varieties, including African American vernacular English. She founded and directs the University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory.[2]
- ^ Herk, Gerard (2001). "Shana Poplack" in Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics (ed. Mesthrie, Rajend, Elsevier: 901)
- ^ "Sociolinguistics Laboratory". University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory.