Guide to the John R. Rickford Papers SC1515 SC1515

Daniel Hartwig & Presley Hubschmitt

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

September 2019

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: John R. Rickford Papers

Creator: Rickford, John R.

Identifier/Call Number: SC1515

Physical Description: 11.75 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1975-2009

Language of Material: English

Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.

Biographical / Historical

"John R. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy in Education, and Pritzker University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He has been at Stanford since 1980.

He received his BA with highest honors in Sociolinguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He won a Dean's Award for distinguished teaching in 1984 and a Bing Fellowship for excellence in teaching in 1992.

The primary focus of his research and teaching is sociolinguistics, the relation between linguistic variation and change and social structure. He is especially interested in the relation between language and ethnicity, social class and style, language variation and change, pidgin and creole languages, African American Vernacular English, and the applications of linguistics to educational problems." (Exerpt from https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-rickford)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of John R. Rickford, 2019.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item] John R. Rickford Papers (SC1515). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

This collection primarily consists of conference materials, projects, papers, and notes related to his work in linguistics. It also includes photographs and an audiorecording of a Rosa Parks press conference at Stanford in 1990.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sociolinguistics

Humanities -- Study and teaching.

Civil rights movements -- United States.

African Americans

Rickford, John R.

Stanford University. Department of Linguistics. Faculty

Papers Accession ARCH-2019-259

Work notes, conference materials, and publications

Box 1

Rappin' on the Copula Coffin

Box 1

Texts and Data

Box 1

Preterite Had

Box 1

Change and Variation in Hawaiian English, Volume I 1976

Box 1

Change and Variation in Hawaiian English, Volume II 1976

Box 1

TALKACROSS Materials for teaching Standard English as a second dialect

Box 1

Recipes

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NWAVE XXI Paper - "Bridging the Gap, AFA Socio and Syntax" 1992

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JR Notes - Dynamics of Creole System by Bickerton 1975

Box 2

CSRE

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Stanford AAAS - Oral Histores of African Americans in EPA 2004

Box 2

East Palo Alto Oral History Project 2004 Feb 18

Box 2

Rosa Parks 1990

Box 6

SCL Conference Prep (UG, Georgetown) 1976 Aug 11 - 14

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ALSOPP (Vol. I) 1958

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S. Hackert - Past Temporal Reference In Bahamian English 2001

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Labov, Yaeger & Steiner: Quan. Study of Sound Chg. in Progress (Vol. 1) 1972

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Labov, Yaeger & Steiner: Quan. Study of Sound Chg. in Progress (Vol. 2) 1972

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Haitian Creole - English/French Dictionary, Vol. I -- Valdman 1981

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Wylbur User's Guide 1980 Oct

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ALSOPP (Vol. II) 1958

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Haitian Creole - English/French Dictionary, Vol. II -- Valdman 1981

Box 6

Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (Fascicle 1) 1980

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Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (Fascicle 2) 1980

Box 6

Catalog of the Esohp Collection 1976-1984

Audiovisual materials

Box 3

Professor Bobby Hill on Garvey & The Minesis 3_01 2000 Jan