# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-j-gumperz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:49:30.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-j-gumperz"
name: "John J. Gumperz"
slug: "john-j-gumperz"
description: "John Joseph Gumperz was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research on the languages of India, on code-switching in Norway, and on conversational interaction, has benefitted the study of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and urban anthropology."
tagline: "American sociolinguist and anthropologist (1922–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-01-09"
deathDate: "2013-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.543161333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون جوزيف جامبيرز"
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    title: "John Joseph Gumperz"
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    title: "John J. Gumperz"
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    title: "John J. Gumperz"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz"
    title: "John J. Gumperz"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Gumperz"
    title: "John J. Gumperz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump