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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 33 Citations 10,578 129 World Ranking 4639 National Ranking 2321

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Awards & Achievements

1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Linguistics
  • Anthropology
  • Law

His primary areas of investigation include Ideology, Interview, Linguistic anthropology, Social psychology and Ethnic group. His Ideology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Anthropology, Power, Classics, Gender studies and Rhetoric. His studies deal with areas such as Ambiguity, Social order, Dynamism and Intertextuality as well as Power.

The concepts of his Interview study are interwoven with issues in Data collection, Journalism, Public relations, Interpretation and Appeal. The Linguistic anthropology study combines topics in areas such as Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, Argument and Racialization. Charles L. Briggs has included themes like Criminology and Racial profiling in his Ethnic group study.

His most cited work include:

  • POETICS AND PERFORMANCE AS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL LIFE (1544 citations)
  • Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research (857 citations)
  • Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power (619 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Anthropology, Linguistics, Linguistic anthropology, Modernity and Politics. His work on Ethnography, Folklore and Social relation as part of general Anthropology study is frequently connected to Native american, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Sociocultural anthropology, Racism, Social order and Ideology.

His Modernity study combines topics in areas such as Aesthetics, Literature, Poetry, Nationalism and Rhetoric. In his study, Poetics is inextricably linked to Gender studies, which falls within the broad field of Politics. His work deals with themes such as On Language and Psychoanalysis, which intersect with Poetics.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Anthropology (19.51%)
  • Linguistics (13.82%)
  • Linguistic anthropology (12.20%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Social science (9.76%)
  • Criminology (7.32%)
  • Cholera (7.32%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Charles L. Briggs spends much of his time researching Social science, Criminology, Cholera, Anthropology and Justice. His Social science investigation overlaps with other disciplines such as Delta and Cover. While the research belongs to areas of Criminology, he spends his time largely on the problem of Global health, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Genealogy and Ambivalence.

His Anthropology research focuses on Gender studies and how it connects with Narrative. The various areas that Charles L. Briggs examines in his Justice study include Applied psychology, Linguistic anthropology and Social movement. He interconnects Public relations and Power in the investigation of issues within Government.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life (28 citations)
  • Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice (13 citations)
  • Towards Communicative Justice in Health. (6 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Linguistics
  • Law
  • Social science

His scientific interests lie mostly in Criminology, Rabies, Justice, Global health and Government. His Criminology research overlaps with Virulence, Cholera and Epidemiology. Charles L. Briggs integrates several fields in his works, including Rabies, Traditional knowledge, Ambivalence, Genealogy and Economic Justice.

His Justice study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Social science, Social movement, Public relations and Power. His research in Global health intersects with topics in Vernacular and Narrative. His research links Linguistic anthropology with Government.

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Best Publications

POETICS AND PERFORMANCE AS CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL LIFE

Richard Bauman;Charles L. Briggs.
Annual Review of Anthropology (1990)

2653 Citations

Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research

Charles L. Briggs.
(1986)

1418 Citations

Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality

Richard Bauman;Charles L. Briggs.
(2003)

987 Citations

Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power

Charles L. Briggs;Richard Bauman.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (1992)

984 Citations

Anthropology, Interviewing, and Communicability in Contemporary Society

Charles L. Briggs.
Current Anthropology (2007)

317 Citations

Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease

Charles L. Briggs.
Annual Review of Anthropology (2005)

294 Citations

Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare

Charles L. Briggs.
Science & Society (2003)

288 Citations

Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art

Charles L. Briggs.
(1988)

265 Citations

The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the “Invention of Tradition”

Charles L. Briggs.
Cultural Anthropology (1996)

243 Citations

Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

Charles L. Briggs;Daniel C. Hallin.
(2016)

204 Citations

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