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name: Wallace Chafe
about: Wallace Chafe is one of the foremost original scholars of the functional theoretical approach to linguistics. He has been involved in ongoing work with several communities of North American Indians, most notably the Seneca of New York. He has also written extensively about discourse, language and consciousness, laughter, prosody, and other topics.He is currently Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.