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The language mavens / Steven Pinker -- North American varieties of English as byproducts of population contacts / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- African American vernacular English is not standard English with mistakes / Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Home speech as springboard to school speech : Oakland's commendable work on Ebonics / Rebecca S. Wheeler -- Southern mountain English : the language of the Ozarks and Southern Appalachia / Bethany K. Dumas -- On the other hand : American sign language, signed Englishes, and other visual language systems / Lynn S. Messing -- "From out in left field? That's not cricket" : finding a focus for the language curriculum / David Crystal -- Investigating English around the world : the international corpus of English / Gerald Nelson and Bas Aarts -- Speaking of America : why English-only is a bad idea / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Language loss, our loss / Mari Rhydwen -- Metaphor, morality, and politics : or, why conservatives have left liberals in the dust / George Lakoff -- Language as a weapon of hate / Rae A. Moses -- Language and the news media : five facts about the fourth estate / Colleen Cotter -- Life on Mars : language and the instruments of invention / Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier -- Laughing at and laughing with : the linguistics of humor and humor in literature / Victor Raskin -- Women and men in conversation / Deborah Tannen -- Breaking mythical bonds : African American women's language / Denise Troutman. |
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