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John Gumperz was an American sociolinguist whose work on code-switching and interactional sociolinguistics shaped the field from the 1960s.
Hans Kamp is a Dutch philosopher and linguist known for Discourse Representation Theory, introduced for formal semantics in the 1980s.
Sandra A. Thompson is an American linguist born in 1941, known for discourse grammar, typology, and the 1981 Mandarin Chinese grammar with Charles Li.
Talmy Givon is a functional linguist known for work on discourse, topic continuity, and the relation between grammar and communication.
Susumu Kuno is a Japanese linguist born in 1933, Harvard emeritus professor, and author of The Structure of the Japanese Language (1973).
Mary Bucholtz is an American sociolinguist at UC Santa Barbara, known for work on language, youth identity, race, and gender in studies from the 1990s onward.
Deborah Tannen is an American sociolinguist at Georgetown, known for discourse analysis and the 1990 book You Just Don't Understand.
Susan Hunston is a British corpus linguist, notable for work on evaluation in text and Pattern Grammar with Gill Francis at the University of Birmingham.
Nicholas Asher is a formal semanticist known for work on discourse interpretation, including Segmented Discourse Representation Theory with Alex Lascarides.
