Geoffrey Nunberg is linguist who teaches at Stanford University. He is the author of Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times. Jump to: navigation, search Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...
Tavis: GeoffreyNunberg is a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford, and the chair of the usage panel at American Heritage Dictionary.
Nunberg: Because it just speaks to all of the clichés and the stereotypes that the right has used to brand liberalism as this upper middle class lifestyle choice rather than as a political doctrine.
Nunberg: The Welfare state's a phrase that the Democrats and the left created in the 1950s, and became tarred as part of this anti-big government campaign by Reagan and others in the 1980s.
Nunberg has written scholarly books and articles on a range of topics, including semantics and pragmatics, information access, written language structure, multilingualism and language policy, and the cultural implications of digital technologies.
Nunberg has served on the Linguistic Society of America's Committee on Social and Political Concerns, and since 1986 has been working with the LSA and other organizations to help organize national opposition to the English-only movement.
Nunberg'slinguistics publications include The Linguistics of Punctuation (CSLI-Chicago, 1990); "Indexicality and Deixis" (Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993); "Idioms" (with Ivan Sag and Thomas Wasow, Language, 1994); "Transfers of Meaning" (Journal of Semantics, 1995), and "The Pragmatics of Deferred Reference" (The Handbook of Pragmatics, 2003).
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