Author's Biography
Dana Scott Bourgerie is an Associate Professor of Asian Languages and head of the Chinese section at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He earned his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages in 1991 from The Ohio State University, where he taught for one year before arriving at BYU. He has studied as a Fulbright scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and as a visting scholar at the City University of Hong Kong.
Professor Bourgerie's research interests are in language variation, sociolinguistics, dialect studies, and language acquisition. He currently serves as director of the Cantonese Language Association and on the editorial board of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.
