Penelope Eckert

21.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
42 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Penelope Eckert is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Penelope Eckert has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Linguistics and Language, 16 papers in Language and Linguistics and 13 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Penelope Eckert's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (33 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers). Penelope Eckert is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (33 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers). Penelope Eckert collaborates with scholars based in United States. Penelope Eckert's co-authors include Sally McConnell‐Ginet, Elizabeth Useem, William Labov, John Baugh, Edward Finegan, Lesley Milroy, Richard Bauman, Malcah Yaeger‐Dror, John R. Rickford and Dennis R. Preston and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Language and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Penelope Eckert

41 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Variation and the indexical field1 1990 2026 2002 2014 2008 1990 1992 2002 2012 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Variation and the indexical field1
    2008 872 citations Penelope Eckert Journal of Sociolinguistics profile →
  2. Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School.
    1990 783 citations Penelope Eckert et al. profile →
  3. Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice
    1992 740 citations Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell‐Ginet Annual Review of Anthropology profile →
  4. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
    2002 671 citations Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  5. Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation
    2012 598 citations Penelope Eckert Annual Review of Anthropology profile →
  6. Linguistic variation as social practice
    2000 554 citations Penelope Eckert profile →
  7. Language and Gender
    2013 408 citations Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell‐Ginet Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Penelope Eckert United States 28 4.5k 3.7k 1.5k 1.3k 1.2k 42 7.0k
Mary Bucholtz United States 30 3.0k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 453 0.3× 1.8k 1.4× 806 0.7× 88 5.8k
Nikolas Coupland United Kingdom 37 2.7k 0.6× 2.9k 0.8× 958 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 471 0.4× 96 5.5k
Richard Bauman United States 28 3.1k 0.7× 3.2k 0.9× 985 0.7× 2.6k 2.0× 548 0.4× 83 8.4k
Ronald K. S. Macaulay United States 22 2.5k 0.5× 2.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 306 0.2× 67 4.5k
Aneta Pavlenko United States 38 2.2k 0.5× 3.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 219 0.2× 76 6.1k
Michael Silverstein United States 22 2.5k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 644 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 339 0.3× 77 5.1k
Alessandro Duranti United States 27 1.3k 0.3× 2.5k 0.7× 946 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 168 0.1× 57 4.7k
Deborah Schiffrin United States 26 1.1k 0.3× 3.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 182 0.1× 51 5.1k
Bambi B. Schieffelin United States 22 2.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 486 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 213 0.2× 50 4.8k
Wallace E. Lambert Canada 44 4.2k 0.9× 5.6k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 3.0k 2.3× 449 0.4× 156 10.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eckert, Penelope. (2025). Syntax and Social Meaning: A Conversation With Emma Moore. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 29(2). 148–154. 1 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2024). Social meaning. Theoretical Linguistics. 50(1-2). 63–70. 3 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2021). Gender and the Third Wave of variation study. Gender and Language. 15(2). 242–248. 2 indexed citations
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D’Onofrio, Annette & Penelope Eckert. (2020). Affect and iconicity in phonological variation. Language in Society. 50(1). 29–51. 13 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2019). The limits of meaning: Social indexicality, variation, and the cline of interiority. Language. 95(4). 751–776. 73 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2019). The limits of meaning: Social indexicality, variation, and the cline of interiority. Language. 9 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2018). Meaning and Linguistic Variation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 52 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope & William Labov. (2017). Phonetics, phonology and social meaning. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 21(4). 467–496. 83 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2017). Comment: The most perfect of signs: Iconicity in variation. Linguistics. 55(5). 12 indexed citations
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Podesva, Robert J., et al.. (2015). Social Influences on the Degree of Stop Voicing in Inland California. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 21(2). 19. 10 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2012). Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation. Annual Review of Anthropology. 41(1). 87–100. 598 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eckert, Penelope & Robert J. Podesva. (2011). Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Toward a Symbiosis of Sociolinguistics and Laboratory Phonology. American Speech. 86(1). 6–13. 12 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope & Étienne Wenger. (2005). Communities of practice in sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 9(4). 582–589. 56 indexed citations
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Finegan, Edward, Geoffrey Nunberg, Richard W. Bailey, et al.. (2004). Language in the USA. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 43 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (2003). Elephants in the room. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 7(3). 392–397. 91 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope, John R. Rickford, Judith T. Irvine, et al.. (2002). Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 671 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell‐Ginet. (1992). Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice. Annual Review of Anthropology. 21(1). 461–488. 740 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eckert, Penelope. (1990). Cooperative competition in adolescent “girl talk”. Discourse Processes. 13(1). 91–122. 75 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (1989). The whole woman: Sex and gender differences in variation. Language Variation and Change. 1(3). 245–267. 367 indexed citations
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Eckert, Penelope. (1988). Adolescent social structure and the spread of linguistic change. Language in Society. 17(2). 183–207. 162 indexed citations

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