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Books
- Michael Miller. Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System: English Plural Formation in Augusta, Georgia. Special issue of the Journal of English Linguistics.
Edited by R.R. Butters, W. Kretzschmar, Jr., and C. Rice.. Sage Publications, 1999.
- The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in White and Black Vernaculars. Peter Lang, Bamberger Beitrage zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 25, 1989.
- Trademarks as Linguistic Objects. in progress.
Articles & Book Chapters
- "Focusing and Diffusion." Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguiswtik: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, vol. 2.. Edited
by Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier, & Peter Trudgill. 2d (2004.).
- "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics (2004.). [abs]
- "Preface." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Edited
by Dennis Preston and Daniel Long. vol. 2 (2002.): xv-xvi.
- "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]
- "Two Notes: The Origin of jaywalking; The Pronunciation of Foreign Loanwords in English." Comments on Etymology (Oct. 2000.): 20-21.
- ""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 P. Griffin, J. Peyton, W. Wolfram, and R. Fasold. ( 2000.): 373-99. (Essays in Honor of Roger Shuy)
- "Semantic and Pragmatic Variability in Medical Research Terms: Implications for Obtaining Meaningful Informed Consent." American Speech vol. 75 ( 2000.): 149-68. (J. Sugarman and L. Kaplan, 2d and 3d authors)
- "The 'Real' Meaning of millennium." American Speech vol. 75 ( 2000.): 111-2.
- "Conversational Anomalies in Eliciting Danger-of-Death Narratives." Southern Journal of Linguistics vol. 24 no. 1 ( 2000.): 69-81. (Revision of a paper read at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics LXII, Spring Meeting, Oxford Mississippi, 4-6 Apr. 2000)
- "The Internationalization of American English: Two Challenges." American Speech ( 2000.).
- "Grammar." History of American English. Edited
by J. Algeo. vol. 6 ( 2000.).
- "“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.).
- "What Did Cary Grant Know About 'Going Gay' and When Did He Know It?: On the Development of the Popular Term gay 'Homosexual'." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America vol. 19 ( 1998.): 188-204. (Revision of a paper read at The Dictionary Society of North America. Cleveland, Ohio, 22 July 1995; read also at The Third Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, The American University, Washington, DC, 15-17 Sept. 1995; also an invited lecture for the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 28 Sept. 1995)
- "Auntie(-man)/tanti in the Caribbean and North America." Language Variety in the South Revisited. Edited
by C. Bernstein, T. Nunnally, and R. Sabino. ( 1997.): 261-65. (Revision of a paper read at the Conference on Language and Variation in the South, Auburn University, Apr. 1993; invited paper)
- "Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Theory." Issues and Methods in Dialectology ( 1997.): 1-13. (Selected Papers from the Ninth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, 31 July 1996; invited plenary lecture)
- "Historical and Contemporary Distribution of Double Modals in English." FOCUS ON: The United States. Varieties of English Around the World. Edited
by Manfred Görlach (General Editor), vol. 16. Ed. by Edgar Schneider. ( 1996.): 265-88. (Barbara Fennell, first author)
- "The Divergence Controversy Revisited." National Language Institutes Around the World-Diversity in Language Issues. Proceedings of the First International Symposium, The National Language Research Institute of Japan (invited paper), 20-21 Jan. 1994 ( 1996.): 118-34.
- "Free Speech and Academic Freedom." The Academic's Handbook. Edited
by A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D. Goodwin. ( 1995.): 81-90.
- "Current Issues in Variation Theory." Verhandlungen des Internationalen Dialektologenkongresses Bamberg 1990, Proceedings of the First International Congress of Dialectologists/Seventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bamberg, Germany 29 July-4 Aug. 1990. Edited
by Wolfgang Viereck. ( 1993.): 3-36. (invited plenary lecture. 31 July)
- "If the Wages of Sin Are for Death: The Semantics and Pragmatics of a Statutory Ambiguity." American Speech vol. 68 ( 1993.): 83-94. (Revision of a paper read at the meeting of the Law and Society Association [session on Linguists in the Judicial Process], May 1992)
- "Multiple Modals in United States Black English: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects." Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole. Edited
by Walter F. Edwards and Donald Winford. ( 1991.): 165-76. (revision of a paper read at the 16th Annual NWAVE Conference, Austin, TX, 1987)
- "More on short end of the stick." American Speech vol. 66 ( 1991.): 336.
- "Whose Language Is It, Anyway? It Belongs to Thee." The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure ( 1991.): 5.
- "Proactive: A New Meaning?." American Speech vol. 65 ( 1990.): 274.
- "Highlighter: A Legally Generic Name?." American Speech vol. 65 ( 1990.): 340.
- "Foreword." South Atlantic QuarterlyDisplacing Homophobia. Edited
by Ron Butters, John Clum, and Michael Moon. vol. 88 (Winter, 1989.): 1-5.
- "Cisatlantic have done." American Speech vol. 64 ( 1989.): 96.
- "Are permafrost and vernalization Loan Translations from Russian?." American Speech vol. 64 ( 1989.): 287-88. (Viktor V. Kabakchi, first author)
- "The Problem of Special-Admission Undergraduates." The Academic's Handbook. Edited
by A. Leigh DeNeef, Craufurd D. Goodwin, and Ellen Stern McCrate. ( 1988.): 166-71. (Reprinted in The Academic's Handbook, 2nd ed. Ed. by A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D. Goodwin [Duke UP, 1995], 211-15 [Christopher Kennedy, 2nd author])
- "Lesson." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Edited
by Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wittenberg. ( 1988.): 348-49.
- "The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence." Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, 1987. Edited
by Alan R. Thomas. ( 1988.): 637-49.
- "Verbal -s as Past-Time Indication in Various Narratives." Papers from the Seventh Annual Spring Linguistic Colloquium, Linguistic Circle of the University of North Carolina (21 Mar. 1987.): 9-18.
- "Thomas Wolfe's 'Esymplastic' Power." American Speech vol. 62 no. 1 ( 1987.): 83-84.
- "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech vol. 60 no. 2 ( 1987.): 184. (on wake 'hold a wake for' as transitive verb)
- "For the Nonce." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 176-77. (Cynthia Y. Krueger, first author)
- "Media Watch: Subreption of Pronouns." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 190-91.
- "More on Singular y'all." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 191-92. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2d author)
- "Query: Crash space." American Speech vol. 62 no. 3 ( 1987.): 241.
- "American Instances of Propredicate do." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 20 ( 1987.): 212-16. (Kazuo Kato, first author)
- "Linguistic Convergence in a North Carolina Community." Variation in Language: NWAV-XV at Stanford-Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation. Edited
by Keith M. Denning et al.. ( 1987.): 52-60.
- "Query: Sorry 'excuse me'." American Speech vol. 61 no. 1 ( 1986.): 60.
- "Existential and Causative have . . . to." American Speech vol. 61 no. 2 ( 1986.): 184-90. ([Kristin Stettler, 2nd author] First read as a paper at the 14th Annual NWAVE Conference, Georgetown University, 1985)
- "The English of Blacks in Wilmington, N.C.." Language Variation in the South: Perspectives in Black and White. Edited
by Michael Montgomery and Guy M. Bailey. ( 1986.): 255-64. (Ruth M. Nix, 2nd author; read in Columbia, SC, 1981; invited conference paper)
- "Levels of Usage." chapter 11b of The Heath Handbook, 11th edition ( 1986.): 118-23. (Revision of 10th edition, chapter 8d)
- "Understanding the Patient: Medical Words the Doctor May Not know." North Carolina Medical Journal (July, 1985.): 415-17. (Jeremy Sugarman, first author)
- "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech vol. 60 no. 3 ( 1985.): 249. (on There you go! as an affirmative interjection)
- "More on Irony Versus Sarcasm." The Metaphor Research Newsletter vol. 4 no. 2 ( 1985.): 4-7.
- "More Medical Words the Doctor May Not Know." North Carolina Medical Journal (Dec. 1985.): 384. (Jeremy Sugarman, first author)
- "Three Traps that Prevent One From Thinking Straight." How to Think Straight Series, Office of the President, Duke University (Jan. 1984.).
- "When is English 'Black English Vernacular'?." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 17 ( 1984.): 29-36. (First read as a paper at the Tenth Annual NWAVE Conference, Philadelphia, 1981)
- "-Ologies and -ologists." American Speech vol. 59 no. 3 ( 1984.): 266-67. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2nd author)
- "Sunbelt English." The New York Times Magazine (21 Aug. 1983.): 11-12.
- "Syntactic Change in British English 'Propredicates'." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 16 ( 1983.): 1-7.
- "Final Vowels in English." The SECOL Review vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1983.): 1-12.
- "-Ologies, -isms, and Dictionary Marking." The Guide (Sept. 1983.): 26-27. (Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12 Sept. 1983)
- "Talkin' Like a Native." The Guide (Nov. 1983.): 21.
- "On Language." The New York Times Magazine (25 July 1982.).
- "Dropping the /h/ from who." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 43.
- "More on duck butter." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 107.
- "Quotative like." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 149.
- "Dialect at Work: Eudora Welty's Artistic Purposes." Mississippi Folklore Register vol. 16 no. 2 ( 1982.): 33-40.
- "A Comment on Sociolinguistics and Teaching Black-Dialect Writers." College English vol. 43 no. 6 ( 1981.): 633-36.
- "Do 'Conceptual Metaphors' Really Exist?." The SECOL Bulletin vol. 5 no. 3 ( 1981.): 108-17. (First read as a paper at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics meeting in Richmond, VA, 1981)
- "Another Point of View." Faculty Newsletter, Duke University vol. 2 no. 7 (Apr. 1981.): 9.
- "Narrative go 'say'." American Speech vol. 55 no. 4 ( 1980.): 304-7.
- "Remedial English, Social Dialects, and the Academically 'Elite' University." Duke University Academic Skills Center Working Papers ( 1980.).
- "Why Teach Modern Grammar?." Questions English Teachers Ask. Edited
by R. Baird Shuman. ( 1977.): 143-54.
- "The Basics in Grammar." Arizona English Bulletin vol. 18 no. 2 ( 1976.): 42-44.
- "More on Indirect Questions." American Speech vol. 51 no. 1-2 (1976 [1980].): 57-62.
- "Variability in Indirect Questions." American Speech vol. 49 no. 3-4 (1974/5.): 230-34.
- "Acceptability Judgments for Double Modals in Southern Dialects." New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English. Edited
by Charles-James N. Bailey and Roger W. Shuy. ( 1973.): 276-86. (Papers from the First Annual NWAVE Conference)
- "Black English {-Z}: Some Theoretical Implications." American Speech vol. 48 no. 1-2 ("(1973 [1975])".): 37-45. (Revision of paper read at the Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting in St. Louis, MO, 1971)
- "A Linguistic View of Negro Intelligence." The Clearing House vol. 46 no. 5 ( 1972.): 259-63. (Reprinted in Current Readings in Urban Education., Ed. by Richard R. Heidenreich (Arlington VA: College Readings, Inc., 1972), 223-27)
- "Competence, Performance, and Variable Rules." Language Sciences vol. 20 ( 1972.): 29-32.
- "Results of Questionnaire [Concerning Variation Theory]." Lectological Newsletter vol. 1 ( 1972.): 1-11. (with Derek Bickerton, Henrietta Cedergren, David Sankoff, Gillian Sankoff, Charles-James N. Bailey, & Ralph Fasold)
- "On the Notion 'Rule of Grammar' in Dialectology." Papers from the Seventh Regional Meeting Chicago, Linguistic Society, Apr. 16-18, 1971(Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society) ( 1971.): 307-15.
- "Dialect Variants and Linguistic Deviance." Foundations of Language vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1971.): 239-54.
- "On the Interpretation of 'Deviant Utterance'." Journal of Linguistics vol. 6 no. 1 ( 1970.): 105-10.
- "Lexical Selection and Linguistic Deviance." Papers in Linguistics vol. 1 no. 1 ( 1969.): 170-81. (Revision of paper read at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics meeting in Gainesville, FL, 1969)
Book Reviews
- J. Fishman, ed.. "Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity." New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999; Language vol. 76 ( 2000.): 921-23.
- Max Travers and John F. Manzo, eds.. "Law in Action: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Approaches to Law." (Socio-Legal Studies Series), Aldershot, Hants, England and Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Dartmouth/Ashgate, 1997, Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law vol. 7 ( 2000.): 262-66.
- James Milroy and Leslie Milroy. "Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English." American Literature vol. 72 ( 2000.): 668-69.
- Traute Ewers. "The Origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO Texts." Language vol. 74 ( 1996.): 384.
- Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass. "The African Heritage of American English." 1993; Anthropological Linguistics vol. 36 ( 1994.): 274.
- Judith N. Levi and Anne Graffam Walker, eds.. "Language in the Judicial Process, 1990; and Roger W. Shuey, Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Courtroom, 1993." American Speech vol. 68 ( 1993.): 109-12.
- Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.. "The Signifying Monkey, 1988." The SECOL Review vol. 16 ( 1992.): 204-7.
- Dennis Preston. "Perceptual Dialectology, Foris, 1989." Language in Society vol. 20 ( 1991.): 294-99.
- Barbara Leeds. "Fairy Tale Rap: "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Other Stories." 1990; American Speech vol. 66 ( 1991.): 104.
- Wayne Dynes. "Homolexis." Gay Academic Union, 1985; American Speech vol. 63 ( 1988.): 175-76.
- Mark Newbrook. "Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral, Lang, 1986." English World-Wide vol. 8 ( 1987.): 304-7.
- W. J. Pepicello and Thomas A. Green. "The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives." Ohio State UP, 1984; International Journal of the Sociology of Language vol. 65 ( 1987.): 112-15.
- Viv Edwards. "Language in a Black Community, Multilingual Matters, 1986." Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 11 (220-24.).
- Raymond Chapman. "The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature." Blackwell, 1984; South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1986.): 208-9.
- Cleanth Brooks. "The Language of the American South." U of Georgia P, 1985; South Atlantic Review (Nov. 1986.): 183-85.
- Laurence Urdang, et. al.. "-Ologies and -Isms." 3rd ed., Gale Research, 1986; American Speech vol. 61 ( 1986.): 280.
- "Review Essay: Current Trends in Variation Theory." Language Problems and Language Planning (Fall 1985.): 215-27.
- Wolfgang Viereck , Edgar W. Schneider, and Manfred Gorlach. "A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English." John Benjamins, 1984; American Speech vol. 60 (Spring 1985.): 88.
- Dennis Baron. "Grammar and Good Taste." Yale UP, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1984.): 471-72.
- Walter M. Brasch. "Black English and the Mass Media." U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1983.): 106-7.
- Derek Bickerton. "Roots of Language." Karoma Press, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1983.): 356-58.
- Wm. E. Kruck. "Looking for Dr. Condom." Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer 1983.): 348.
- Hugh Rawson. "A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk." Crown Publishers, 1981; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60.
- Jim Quinn. "American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language." Pantheon, 1981; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60.
- Donald Koster, ed.. "American Literature and Language: A Guide to Information Sources." Gale Research Co., 1982; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 188.
- Robert Fiengo. "Surface Structure: The Interface of Autonomous Components." Harvard UP, 1980; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 188.
- George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. "Metaphors We Live By." U of Chicago P, 1980; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1982.): 128-29.
- Richard A. Spears. "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary." Jonathan David Publisher, 1981; Choice (May 1982.): 55-56.
- Raven I. McDavid, Jr.. "Dialects in Culture." , ed. by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., et. al., U of Alabama P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1981.): 113-15.
- Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill. "English Accents and Dialects." University Park Press, 1979; American Speech vol. 56 ( 1981.): 234-36.
- Crawford Feagin. "Variation and Change in Alabama English." Georgetown UP, 1979; Language vol. 57 ( 1981.): 735-38.
- Albert Valdman and Arnold Highfield, eds.. "Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies." Academic Press, 1980; Choice (Sept. 1981.): 159.
- Paul Ricoeur. "The Rule of Metaphor, tr. by Robert Czerny U of Toronto P, 1977; and Samuel R. Levin, The Semantics of Metaphor, Johns Hopkins P, 1977." Journal of Linguistics (Sept. 1980.): 263-69.
- James D. McCawley. "Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder." U of Chicago P, 1979; Choice (Jan. 1980.): 138.
- Andrew Ortony, ed.. "Metaphor and Thought." Cambridge UP, 1979; Choice (Apr. 1980.): 96.
- Thomas Pyles. "Selected Essays on English Usage." ed. by John Algeo, U of Florida P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1980.): 460-61.
- Walt Wolfram and Donna Christian. "Appalachian Speech,." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1978; Language vol. 55 (1979.): 460-63.
- Eva M. Burkett. "American English Dialects in Literature." The Scarecrow Press, 1978; Choice (Mar. 1979.): 53.
- James C. Raymond and I. Willis Russell, eds.. "James B. McMillan, Essays in Linguistics by his Friends." U of Alabama P, 1978; Choice (July/Aug. 1978.): 684.
- Paul D. Brandes and Jeutonne Brewer. "Dialect Clash in English: Issues and Answers." The Scarecrow Press, 1977; Choice (Dec. 1977.): 1354.
- Ronald Wardhaugh and H. Douglas Brown, eds.. "A Survey of Applied Linguistics." U of Michigan P, 1978; Choice (June, 1977.): 527.
- Joey Lee Dillard. "American Talk: Where Our Words Came From." Random House, 1976; Choice (May, 1977.): 364.
- Carroll E. Reed. "Dialects of American English." 2nd ed., U of Massachusetts P, 1977; Choice (Dec. 1977.): 1354.
- Charles-James Bailey. "Variation and Linguistic Theory." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973; Language Sciences (Apr. 1976.): 32-35.
- Gordon Winant Hewes. "Language Origins: A Bibliography." Mouton, 1975; Choice (Apr. 1976.): 204.
- Bruce L. Liles. "An Introduction to Linguistics." Prentice Hall, 1975, Choice (Oct. 1975.).
- Martyn F. Wakelin. "English Dialects." Humanities Press, 1972; Choice (Oct. 1975.): 1862.
- "A Survey of Linguistic Science, Univ. of Maryland Linguistics Program, 1971; and Linguistics in the 1970's, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1971." American Speech. Edited
by William Orr Dingwall. vol. 45 ( 1973.): 122-29.
- Leonard R. Palmer. "Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics: A Critical Introduction." Crane, Russak and Co., 1971; Choice (July-Aug. 1973.): 654.
- Paul R. Turner, ed.. "Bilingualism in the Southwest." U of Arizona P, 1973; Choice (Nov. 1973.): 1434.
- John Lyons. "Noam Chomsky." The Viking Press, 1970; Richmond Times-Dispatch (11 July 1971.).
- "Report of the Twenty-Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies." American Speech. Edited
by Richard J. O'Brien, Georgetown UP 1971. vol. 41 (1969 [1973].): 287-92.
- Maurice Leroy. "Main Trends in Modern Linguistics." U of California P, 1967; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer, 1968.): 569-70.
Edited Volumes
- R.R. Butters, J. Clum, and M. Moon, eds.. Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture. ( 1989.). (Reprinting, with modifications of SAQ 88.1 [1989]; this book won the 1989 Conference of Editors of Learned Journals Best Special Issue Award)
Other
- "Composition Guide, Duke University." (Sept. 1983.). (15 pp., 2d ed. Aug. 1984; 3d ed. Aug. 1985; 4th ed. 1986 [with George D. Gopen], 29 pp.; eds. 5-12 appeared as Guidelines for Composition [with George D. Gopen], 1987-94, 32 pp)
- "Stylesheet for Writing." (Sept. 1982.). (8 pp. Xeroxed)
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