Mary Bucholtz was born on 29 October 1966 and is a professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara.
16 Facts About Mary Bucholtz
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At UC Santa Barbara, where she has worked as an assistant professor, an associate professor and a full professor, Mary Bucholtz is affiliated with several departments, including the anthropology, the feminist studies, the Spanish and Portuguese, as well as the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, the comparative literature program, and the Latin American and Iberian studies program.
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Mary Bucholtz has been an editorial board member for several journals.
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Mary Bucholtz served as series editor for Studies in Language and Gender from 1998 to 2013, editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology from 2002 to 2004, and an editorial board member of Language in Society, Gender and Language, Journal of Sociolinguistics, American Anthropologist, and Text and Talk.
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Mary Bucholtz still serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Communication, the International Journal on Research in Critical Discourse Analysis, Language and Linguistics Compass, American Speech, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Pragmatics and Society, and Discourse, Context, and Media.
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Mary Bucholtz has been an advisory board member for Gender and Language since 2014.
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From 2000 to 2001, Mary Bucholtz was appointed as the chair of the Nominations Committee of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
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Mary Bucholtz was elected to serve as an advisory council member and co-chair for the International Gender and Language Association from 2000 to 2004.
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Mary Bucholtz was recognized in 2014 by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology with the Award for Public Outreach and Community Service.
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In 2020, Mary Bucholtz was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
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Mary Bucholtz is well known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Kira Hall.
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Mary Bucholtz initially presented her work on nerd girls at the 1997 International Conference on Language and Social Psychology.
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Mary Bucholtz uses the concepts of positive identity practices and negative identity practices to show how nerds construct their community of practice.
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Mary Bucholtz's research suggests that the nerd identity is "hyperwhite," characterized linguistically by more infrequent use of valley girl speech and slang than other social categories; by a preference for Greco-Latinate over Germanic words; by the use of the discourse practice of punning; and by adherence to conventions of "super-standard English," or excessively formal English.
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Additionally, Mary Bucholtz found that the speech of nerds often included avoidance of consonant-cluster simplification and phonological reduction of unstressed vowels as is common in colloquial speech as well as careful and precise enunciation and reading style speech.
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Mary Bucholtz proposes that these linguistic practices and features are used to establish the nerds' intragroup identity marker of intelligence.