William Hanks

William F. Hanks is an American linguist and anthropologist who has done influential work in linguistic anthropology describing the uses of deixis and indexicality in the Yucatec Maya language. He holds the Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley.[1] A student of Michael Silverstein, he received his Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Chicago.[2] He is also known for introducing the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of communicative practices. He received the Edward Sapir award of the American Anthropological Association for his 2010 monograph "Converting Words" about the colonial period society of Yucatán.[3]

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  1. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/person/33
  2. Duranti, Alessandro. Editors introduction to chapter 2 in Rethinking Context, Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. A. Duranti and C. Goodwin, eds. Pp. 43-77. Cambridge University Press.
  3. http://linguisticanthropology.org/tag/william-f-hanks/


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