Penelope "Penny" Eckert é uma linguista estadunidense conhecida por suas pesquisas em sociolinguística variacionista, especialmente sobre questões de linguagem e gênero. Em 2018, foi presidente da Sociedade Linguística da América. É professora da Universidade de Stanford.
Bibliografia selecionada
Livros
Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School (1989) Linguistic variation as social practice: The linguistic construction of identity in Belten High (2000) Language and Gender (com Sally McConnell-Ginet; 2003)
Artigos e capítulos
The Whole Woman: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation. Language Variation and Change 1, 1989, 245–67. Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community–Based Practice (com Sally McConnell–Ginet). Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 1992, 461-90. Communities of Practice: Where Language, Gender and Power all Live. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz e Birch Moonwomon eds., Locating Power, Proceedings of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 89-99. (com Sally McConnell–Ginet). Age as a sociolinguistic variable. In Florian Coulmas ed., The Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 12:4, 2008, 453-76. Three waves of variation study: The emergence of meaning in the study of sociolinguistic variation. Annual Review of Anthropology, 41, 2012 87-100.
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