Madeleine Mathiot

{{Short description|American linguist (1927–2020)}} {{use American English|date=December 2025}} {{use mdy|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = | honorific_suffix = | image = Madeleine_Mathiot.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date |1927|6|11}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|4|1927|6|11}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = 1 | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = Catholic University of America | thesis_title = An approach to the study of language and culture relations | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1968 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline =  | sub_discipline =  | workplaces =  | doctoral_students =  | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Madeleine Mathiot''' (June 11, 1927<ref>{{cite web |title=Madeleine Mathiot Obituary |url=https://www.amigone.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=19244544 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010162937/https://www.amigone.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=19244544 |archive-date=Oct 10, 2023 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=Amigone.com}}</ref> – December 4, 2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Recent News |url=https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/linguistics/news-events/recent-news.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004233735/https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/linguistics/news-events/recent-news.html |archive-date=Oct 4, 2023 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=University at Buffalo Department of Linguistics}}</ref>) was an American linguist who was professor emerita of linguistics at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York.<ref name=":0" />

Mathiot received her PhD in 1966 from the Catholic University of America with a dissertation entitled, "An approach to the study of language and culture relations."<ref>{{Cite journal|title=PhD dissertations in Anthropology|journal=Current Anthropology|year=1968 |volume=9|issue=5, Part 2 |pages=590–606|doi=10.1086/200969 |s2cid=224790201 }}</ref> She is best known for her work on the O'odham language (also known as Papago-Pima), linguistic meaning, and conversation analysis.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Madeleine Mathiot |url=https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mathiotm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124000438/http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mathiotm/ |archive-date=Jan 24, 2022 |access-date=2016-12-25 |website=acsu.buffalo.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Colleen M. |last2=Miguel |first2=Phillip |title=A practical guide to Mathiot's O'odham dictionary |url=http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/O'odham/CultureTeacher.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005235831/http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/O'odham/CultureTeacher.pdf |archive-date=Oct 5, 2019 |website=uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/O'odham/CultureTeacher.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garate |first=Don |title=M – An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O'odham (Papago Indians) |url=https://home.nps.gov/applications/tuma/bibliography/m.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212223217/https://www.nps.gov/applications/tuma/bibliography/m.html |archive-date=Feb 12, 2024 |access-date=2016-12-25 |website=home.nps.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.se/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=madeleine+mathiot&btnG=|title=Google Scholar Citations Madeleine Mathiot|website=scholar.google.se|access-date=2018-12-20}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zepeda |first1=Ofelia |title=Developing Awareness and Strategies for Tohono O'Odham Language Maintenance |journal=Practicing Anthropology |date=1999 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=20–22 |doi=10.17730/praa.21.2.xk608522r77r34k4 |url=https://www.jstor.com/stable/24781622 |access-date=4 January 2021 |issn=0888-4552|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''The Arizona Daily Star'' lauded it as "probably the finest dictionary compiled for any North American Indian language."<ref>{{cite news |title=Books of the Southwest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/163765859/ |access-date=4 January 2021 |work=Arizona Daily Star |date=March 30, 1980 |location=Tucson, AZ |page=5}}</ref>

== 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.

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== External links == * https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mathiotm/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004105651/https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~mathiotm/ |date=2015-10-04 }} * http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/People/emeritus.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226054347/http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/People/emeritus.html |date=2016-12-26 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mathiot, Madeleine}} Category:1927 births Category:2020 deaths Category:Linguists from the United States Category:University at Buffalo faculty Category:Catholic University of America alumni Category:American women linguists Category:Ethnolinguists