John R. Rickford

Stanford University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Linguistic Variation and Morphology(83), Multilingual Education and Policy(55), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(17), Phonetics and Phonology Research(15), Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies(11)

Publications142 total

How I Fell in Love with Language, Linguistics, and “Activist Sociolinguistics”: An Autobiographical Essay
Annual Review of Linguistics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Language on Trial
Daedalus·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the summer of 1969
2021
Ebonics, Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin, Black Lives Matter
2021
Rosa Parks at Stanford
2021
Johnny and Johnny (Agard) and the police
2021
How I fell in love with linguistics and Black Talk
2021
Forebears and cousins
2021
Siblings
2021
Forgive me, my son. Thank you, my parents
2021
Epilogue: The gift of Love
2021
Friends and girlfriends
2021
Speaking my Soul
2021· 2 cited
The Sea Islands
2021
Baby Wade, my Mom
2021
Queen's College (my high school)
2021
Stanford in Oxford—David Dabydeen and Dennis Brutus
2021
Going to America
2021
African and African American Studies, Learning Expeditions, Kongo Cosmograms
2021
Youngest of ten, and my monkey and rabbit
2021
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Frequent Co-authors

Angela E. Rickford(4), Thomas Wasow(4), Penelope Eckert(3), William Labov(2), Elizabeth Closs Traugott(2), Sharese King(2), Renée Blake(2), Arnold M. Zwicky(2), Isabelle Buchstaller(2), Julie Sweetland(2), Judith T. Irvine(1), Susan Μ. Ervin-Tripp(1), Richard Bauman(1), Ronald K. S. Macaulay(1), John Baugh(1), Allan Bell(1), Malcah Yaeger‐Dror(1), Nikolas Coupland(1), Howard Giles(1), Edward Finegan(1)