Variation and Language: Overview
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Walt Wolfram is William C Friday Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at North Carolina State University, where he also directs the North Carolina Language and Life Project. He has pioneered research on social and ethnic dialects since the 1960s, authoring or co-authoring 17 books and more than 250 articles on social and ethnic dialects of American English. His current research involves historically and culturally isolated ethnic dialect communities. Professor Wolfram is also vitally concerned with the application of sociolinguistic information to social and educational problems and the dissemination of knowledge about dialects to the public. Wolfram has served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics.