Susan Gal

Contributions to linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Europe. Early work documented and theorized the sociolinguistic dynamics of plurilingualism in Central and Eastern Europe and of linguistic variation and change as language-ideological processes. Linguistic anthropological student of the post-socialist transformation, especially of language and communicative patterns, gender arrangements and politics. Theorist of the cultural and ideological underpinnings of language-centered policy, practice, and scholarship.