Ronald R Butters, Professor of Linguistics
| Office Location: | 314 Allen Building |
| Office Phone: | 919-423-8866 |
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| Web Page: | http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~ronbutters |
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Iowa, Iowa City 1967
- B.A. with Honors and Highest Distinction (Phi Beta Kappa) University of Iowa, Iowa City 1962
- Specialties:
- Legal Anthropology
- North America
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics (2004). [abs]
- "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics (Mar. 2001).
- "'We didn't realize that lite beer was supposed to suck!': The Putative Vulgarity of X sucks in American English." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America ( 2001). [abs]
- "“What Is About to Take Place Is a Murder": Construing the Racist Subtext in a Small-Town Virginia Courtroom." Language in Action: New Studies of Language and Society. Edited by Peg Griffin, Joy Peyton, Walt Wolfram, and Ralph Fasold. (2000).