Ronald R Butters, Professor of Linguistics

Office Location:	314 Allen Building
Office Phone:	919-423-8866
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~ronbutters

Curriculum Vitae

• 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)

1. "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics  (2004).  [abs]
2. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics  (Mar. 2001).
3. "'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]
4. "“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).