Madeleine Mathiot (June 11, 1927 – December 4, 2020) was a Professor emerita of

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at the

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. Mathiot received her Ph.D. in 1966 from the

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with a dissertation entitled, "An approach to the study of language and culture relations." She is best known for her work on the O'odham language (also known as Papago-Pima),

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, and conversation analysis. In 1973 she published ''A Dictionary of Papago Usage'' which was based on her work with O'odham-language speakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. '' The Arizona Daily Star'' lauded it as "probably the finest dictionary compiled for any North American Indian language."

Publications

* Mathiot, M. (n.d.). ''Talk in interactive events: The view from within''. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. * Mathiot, M. (2014). Jim and Bonnie's telephone conversation revisited: A meaning-based approach to talk in interactive events. ''Semiotica'', ''199'', 247–267. * Mathiot, M. (2013). Individual variation in participants' account of their own interaction. ''Semiotica'', ''193'', 337–359. * Mathiot, M. (1991). The reminiscenses of Juan Dolores, an early 'O'odham linguist. ''Anthropological Linguistics'', ''33''(3), 233–316. * Mathiot, M. (1990). On generalizing in the case study approach. ''La Linguistique'', ''26''(2), 129–151. * Mathiot, M. (1987). The rhythmical patterning of talk in everyday conversation. ''Proceedings of LAUD Symposium''. Article 195. * Mathiot, M., Boyerlein, P., Fletcher, R., Levy, J.-A., & Marks, P.(1986). Meaning attribution to behavior in face to face interaction – a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. ''Research on Language and Social Interaction'', ''20''(1–4), 271–375. * Mathiot, M. (1985). Semantics of sensory perception terms. In H. Seiler & G. Brettschneider (eds.), ''Language invariants and mental operations'' (pp. 135–161). Tübingen: Günter Narr. * Mathiot, M. (1981). The self-disclosure technique for ethnographic elicitation. In M. Herzfeld & M. Lenhart (eds.), ''Semiotics'' (pp. 339–346). New York, NY: Plenum Press. * Mathiot, M. (1979a). Folk definitions as a tool for the analysis of lexical meaning. In M. Mathiot (ed.), ''Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir, and Whorf revisited'' (pp. 121–260). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. * Mathiot, M. (1979b). Sex roles as revealed through referential gender in American English. In M. Mathiot (ed.), ''Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir, and Whorf revisited'' (pp. 4–49). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. * Mathiot, M. (1973). ''A dictionary of Papago usage''. 2 volumes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. * Mathiot, M. (1969). The cognitive significance of the category of nominal number in Papago. In D. Hymes & W. E. Bittle (ed.), ''Studies in Southwestern ethnolinguistics'' (pp. 197–237). The Hague: Mouton. * Mathiot, M. (1962). Noun classes and folk taxonomy in Papago. ''American Anthropologist'', ''64''(2), 340–350.

References

External links

* https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mathiotm/ * http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/People/emeritus.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Mathiot, Madeleine 1927 births 2020 deaths Linguists from the United States University at Buffalo faculty Catholic University of America alumni American women linguists Ethnolinguists