Melvin J. Hoffman has a B.S. in English, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, and an M.A. in Religious Studies. He has served as a linguistics consultant to the Chicago Board of Education. He has taught in-service classes for the Teacher-Corps Peace Corps, Buffalo Board of Education, and federal government. He teaches composition, linguistics, and biblical and classical literature.
Melvin J. Hoffman has an Illinois Institute of Technology English B.S. (1963) and Linguistics M.S. (1965), a SUNY at Buffalo Linguistics PH.D. (1970), and a Canisius College Religious Studies M.A. (1983). He has worked as dialect-survey field interviewer in Chicago, as Chicago Board of Education linguistic consultant, and as in-service class instructor for the Teacher-Corps Peace Corps, Buffalo Board of Education, and federal-government agencies. Major publication areas are compo-sition, applied linguistics related to Ebonics, and theoretical linguistics in English phonology, most recently, phonosymbolism. Minor publications are in epigraphy and non-verbal communication. He teaches composition, linguistics, and biblical and classical literature. He has been interviewed for newspaper articles, appeared on television, and written feature articles for the popular press.