Sean O'Neill
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. UC Davis, 2001)

Research Interests
Linguistic relativity (language and worldview); language contact; multilingualism; language ideologies (cultural conceptions of language); sociolinguistic identity; storytelling; folklore; language revitalization; descriptive linguistics; historical linguistics; language change; ethnographic methods; discourse analysis; phenomenology; hermeneutics; semiotics; the anthropology of religion; history and theory in anthropology; the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; the psychology of culture; structuralism and post-structuralism; performance theory; the philosophy of language; ethnohistory; history of thought on language and symbolism (especially Socrates, Aristotle, Humboldt, Pierce, Dewey, Mead, Saussure, Boas, Sapir, Whorf, Lévy-Bruhl, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Vygotsky, Cassirer, Schütz, Foucault, Derrida, Barthes, Kristeva, Lévi-Strauss, and Eco).
Selected Publications

In Press. Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2008. 
2007. Review of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces. American Anthropologist, March 2007, Vol. 109, No. 1:204.
2006a. Mythic and Poetic Dimensions of Speech in Northwestern California: From Cultural Vocabulary to Linguistic Relativity.  Anthropological Linguistics 48(4):305-334.
2006b. Bakhtin, Mikhail (1895-1975). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 652–653. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.
2006c. Schütz, Alfred (1889-1959). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 11, pp. 29–30.  Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.
2006d. Voloshinov, Valentin Nikolaevich (1894/5-1936). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 13, pp. 481–482.  Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.
2001. The Collected Works of Edward Sapir XIV: Northwest California Linguistics, edited by Victor Golla and Sean O’Neill. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Office: DHT 513
Email: Sean.P.O-Neill-1@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-4499