John R. Rickford
John R. Rickford | |
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Rickford speaks as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016 | |
| Born | John Russell Rickford September 16, 1949 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | Academic and author |
| Employer | Stanford University |
John Russell Rickford (born September 16, 1949) is a Guyanese–American academic and author. Rickford is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University's Department of Linguistics and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he has taught since 1980. His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford, won the American Book Award in 2000.