Who is the colleague of Ruth Benedict who is know for the development of the discipline of linguistics?
Edward Sapir Edward Sapir ( ; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics.
Penelope Eckert Penelope "Penny" Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she holds the position of Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics. She is a prominent scholar of variationist sociolinguistics, and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender.