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Books
- Miller, M. Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System: English Plural Formation in Augusta, Georgia.
Edited by Butters, RR; W Kretzschmar, J; Rice, C. SAGE Publications, 1999.
- Butters, RR. The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in White and Black Vernaculars. Peter Lang, Bamberger Beitrage zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 25, 1989.
- Butters, RR. Trademarks as Linguistic Objects. in progress. 2007 pages pp.
Articles & Book Chapters
- Butters, RR. ""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 Griffin, P; Peyton, J; Wolfram, W; Fasold, R. ( 2000.): 373-99. (Essays in Honor of Roger Shuy)
- Urdang, L; al, E; Butters, R,. "-Ologies and -Isms." 3rd Ed., Gale Research, 1986; American Speech vol. 61 ( 1986.): 280-280.
- Butters, RR. "-Ologies and -ologists." American Speech vol. 59 no. 3 ( 1984.): 266-67. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2nd author)
- Butters, RR. "-Ologies, -isms, and Dictionary Marking." The Guide ( 1983.): 26-27. (Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12 Sept. 1983)
- Butters, RR. "The Language of Bribery Cases Roger W. Shuy (2013) Oxford University Press 276pp." International Journal of Speech Language and the Law vol. 22 no. 1 (January, 2015.): 127-132. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Viereck, W; Schneider, EW; Gorlach, M. "A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English." John Benjamins, 1984; American Speech vol. 60 (Spring, 1985.): 88-88.
- Butters, RR. "A Comment on Sociolinguistics and Teaching Black-Dialect Writers." College English vol. 43 no. 6 ( 1981.): 633-36.
- Rawson, H; Butters, R,. "A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk." Crown Publishers, 1981; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60-60.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Wardhaugh, R; Brown, HD; Butters, R,. "A Survey of Applied Linguistics." U of Michigan P, 1978; Choice (June, 1977.): 527-527.
- Butters, RR. "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 Dingwall, WO. vol. 45 ( 1973.): 122-29.
- Butters, RR. "Acceptability Judgments for Double Modals in Southern Dialects." New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English. Edited
by Bailey, C-JN; Shuy, RW. ( 1973.): 276-86. (Papers from the First Annual NWAVE Conference)
- McCawley, JD; Butters, R,. "Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder." U of Chicago P, 1979; Choice ( 1980.): 138-138.
- Burkett, EM; Butters, R,. "American English Dialects in Literature." The Scarecrow Press, 1978; Choice ( 1979.): 53-53.
- Kato, K; Butters, RR. "American Instances of Propredicate Do." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 20 no. 2 (October, 1987.): 212-216. (Kazuo Kato, first author) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Koster, D; ed, ; Butters, R,. "American Literature and Language: A Guide to Information Sources." Gale Research Co., 1982; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 188-188.
- Dillard, JL; Butters, R,. "American Talk: Where Our Words Came From." Random House, 1976; Choice (May, 1977.): 364-364.
- Quinn, J; Butters, R,. "American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language." Pantheon, 1981; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60-60.
- Liles, BL; Butters, R,. "An Introduction to Linguistics." Prentice Hall, 1975, Choice (October, 1975.).
- Butters, RR. "Another Point of View." Faculty Newsletter, Duke University vol. 2 no. 7 ( 1981.): 9-9.
- Wolfram, W; Christian, D; Butters, R,. "Appalachian Speech,." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1978; Language vol. 55 ( 1979.): 460-63.
- Kabakchi, VV; Butters, RR. "Are Permafrost and Vernalization Loan Translations from Russian?." American Speech vol. 64 no. 3 ( 1989.): 287-287. (Viktor V. Kabakchi, first author) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "Auntie(-man)/tanti in the Caribbean and North America." Language Variety in the South Revisited. Edited
by Bernstein, C; Nunnally, T; Sabino, R. ( 1997.): 261-65. (Revision of a paper read at the Conference on Language and Variation in the South, Auburn University, Apr. 1993; invited paper)
- Butters, RR. "Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English." American Literature vol. 72 no. 3 (September, 2000.): 668-669. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Turner, PR; ed, ; Butters, R,. "Bilingualism in the Southwest." U of Arizona P, 1973; Choice ( 1973.): 1434-1434.
- Butters, RR. "Black English -Z: Some Theoretical Implications." American Speech vol. 48 no. 1-2 ( 1973.): 37-45. (Revision of paper read at the Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting in St. Louis, MO, 1971)
- Brasch, WM. "Black English and the Mass Media." U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly ( 1989.): 106-7.
- Butters, RR. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics ( 2001.).
- BUTTERS, RR. "CIS-ATLANTIC HAVE-DONE." American Speech vol. 64 no. 1 ( 1989.): 96-96. [Gateway.cgi]
- Butters, RR. "Competence, Performance, and Variable Rules." Language Sciences vol. 20 ( 1972.): 29-32.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Butters, RR. "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 Viereck, W. ( 1993.): 3-36. (invited plenary lecture. 31 July)
- Palmer, LR; Butters, R,. "Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics: A Critical Introduction." Crane, Russak and Co., 1971; Choice ( 1973.): 654-654.
- Butters, RR. "Dialect at Work: Eudora Welty’s Artistic Purposes." Mississippi Folklore Register vol. 16 no. 2 ( 1982.): 33-40.
- Brandes, PD; Brewer, J; Butters, R,. "Dialect Clash in English: Issues and Answers." The Scarecrow Press, 1977; Choice (December, 1977.): 1354-1354.
- Butters, RR. "Dialect Variants and Linguistic Deviance." Foundations of Language vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1971.): 239-54.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Raven I McDavid, J. "Dialects in Culture." , Ed. by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Et. Al., U of Alabama P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter, 1981.): 113-15.
- Reed, CE; Butters, R,. "Dialects of American English." 2nd Ed., U of Massachusetts P, 1977; Choice ( 1977.): 1354-1354.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Butters, RR. "Dropping the /h/ from who." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 43-43.
- Hughes, A; Trudgill, P; Butters, R,. "English Accents and Dialects." University Park Press, 1979; American Speech vol. 56 ( 1981.): 234-36.
- Wakelin, MF; Butters, R,. "English Dialects." Humanities Press, 1972; Choice ( 1975.): 1862-1862.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Leeds, B; Butters, R,. "Fairy Tale Rap: "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Other Stories." 1990; American Speech vol. 66 ( 1991.): 104-104.
- Butters, RR. "Final Vowels in English." The Secol Review vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1983.): 1-12.
- Butters, RR. "Focusing and Diffusion." Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguiswtik: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, vol. 2.. Edited
by Ammon, U; Dittmar, N; Mattheier, K; Trudgill, P. 2d (Winter, 2004.).
- Butters, RR. "For the Nonce." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 176-77. (Cynthia Y. Krueger, first author)
- Butters, RR. "Forensic Linguistics." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 39 no. 2 (June, 2011.): 196-202. [doi]
- "Foreword." South Atlantic QuarterlyDisplacing Homophobia. Edited
by Ron Butters, John Clum, and Michael Moon. vol. 88 (Winter, 1989.): 1-5.
- Butters, RR. "Free Speech and Academic Freedom." The Academic's Handbook. Edited
by DeNeef, AL; Goodwin, CD. ( 1995.): 81-90.
- Matthews, D; Tomasello, M. "Grammar." . Edited
by Algeo, J. vol. 1-3 (January, 2008.): 38-50. [doi] [abs]
- Baron, D. "Grammar and Good Taste." Yale Up, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly (April, 2014.): 471-72.
- Butters, RR; Fishman, JA. "Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity." Language vol. 76 no. 4 (December, 2000.): 921-921. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "Highlighter: A Legally Generic Name?." American Speech vol. 65 ( 1990.): 340-340.
- Butters, RR. "Historical and Contemporary Distribution of Double Modals in English." FOCUS ON: The United States. Varieties of English Around the World. Edited
by Editor, MGG; Schneider, VEBE. ( 1996.): 265-88. (Barbara Fennell, first author)
- Dynes, W; Butters, R,. "Homolexis." Gay Academic Union, 1985; American Speech vol. 63 ( 1988.): 175-76.
- Butters, RR. "How not to strike it rich: Semantics, pragmatics, and semiotics of a Massachusetts lottery game card." Applied Linguistics vol. 25 no. 4 (December, 2004.): 466-490. [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics (2004.). [abs]
- Raymond, JC; Russell, IW; Butters, R,. "James B. McMillan, Essays in Linguistics by his Friends." U of Alabama P, 1978; Choice ( 1978.): 684-684.
- Edwards, V; Butters, R,. "Language in a Black Community, Multilingual Matters, 1986." Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 11 ( 1987.).
- Butters, RR. "Language in the USA: Themes for the twenty-first century." Language vol. 83 no. 4 (December, 2007.): 883-886. [Gateway.cgi]
- Hewes, GW; Butters, R,. "Language Origins: A Bibliography." Mouton, 1975; Choice ( 1976.): 204-204.
- Butters, RR. "Language, Meaning and the Law by Chris Hutton." Journal of Sociolinguistics vol. 15 no. 4 (September, 2011.): 532-537. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "Lesson." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Edited
by Stang, SJ; Wittenberg, R. ( 1988.): 348-49.
- Butters, RR. "Levels of Usage." chapter 11b of The Heath Handbook, 11th edition ( 1986.): 118-23. (Revision of 10th edition, chapter 8d)
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Butters, RR. "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 al, KMDE. ( 1987.): 52-60.
- Kruck, WE. "Looking for Dr. Condom." Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly (April, 2014.): 348-348.
- Leroy, M. "Main Trends in Modern Linguistics." U of California P, 1967; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer, 1969.): 569-70.
- BUTTERS, RR. "MEDIA WATCH - SUBREPTION OF PRONOUNS." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 190-191. [Gateway.cgi]
- Ortony, A; ed, ; Butters, R,. "Metaphor and Thought." Cambridge Up, 1979; Choice ( 1980.): 96-96.
- Lakoff, G; Johnson, M. "Metaphors We Live By." U of Chicago P, 1980; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter, 1983.): 128-29.
- Butters, RR. "More Medical Words the Doctor May Not Know." North Carolina Medical Journal ( 1985.): 384-384. (Jeremy Sugarman, first author)
- Butters, RR. "More on duck butter." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 107-107.
- Butters, RR. "More on Indirect Questions." American Speech vol. 51 no. 1/2 ( 1976.): 57-57. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "More on Irony Versus Sarcasm." The Metaphor Research Newsletter vol. 4 no. 2 ( 1985.): 4-7.
- Butters, RR. "More on short end of the stick." American Speech vol. 66 ( 1991.): 336-336.
- BUTTERS, RR. "MORE ON SINGULAR YALL." American Speech vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 191-192. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2d author) [Gateway.cgi]
- Butters, RR. "Multiple Modals in United States Black English: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects." Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole. Edited
by Edwards, WF; Winford, D. ( 1991.): 165-76. (revision of a paper read at the 16th Annual NWAVE Conference, Austin, TX, 1987)
- Butters, RR. "Narrative Go 'Say'." American Speech vol. 55 no. 4 ( 1980.): 304-304. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Lyons, J; Butters, R,. "Noam Chomsky." The Viking Press, 1970; Richmond Times Dispatch ( 1971.).
- Butters, RR. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech vol. 60 no. 2 ( 1987.): 184-184. (on wake 'hold a wake for' as transitive verb)
- Butters, RR. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech vol. 60 no. 3 ( 1985.): 249-249. (on There you go! as an affirmative interjection)
- Butters, RR. "On Language." The New York Times Magazine (July, 1982.).
- "On the Interpretation of ’Deviant Utterance’." Journal of Linguistics vol. 6 no. 1 ( 1970.): 105-10.
- Butters, RR. "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.
- Preston, D; Butters, R,. "Perceptual Dialectology, Foris, 1989." Language in Society vol. 20 ( 1991.): 294-99.
- Fields, B; Page, K. "Preface." vol. 2015-June (January, 2015.).
- "Preface." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Edited
by Dennis Preston and Daniel Long. vol. 2 (2002.): xv-xvi.
- Butters, RR. "Proactive: A New Meaning?." American Speech vol. 65 ( 1990.): 274-274.
- Butters, RR. "Query: Crash space." American Speech vol. 62 no. 3 ( 1987.): 241-241.
- Butters, RR. "Query: Sorry ’excuse me’." American Speech vol. 61 no. 1 ( 1986.): 60-60.
- Butters, RR. "Quotative like." American Speech vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 149-149.
- Butters, RR. "Remedial English, Social Dialects, and the Academically ’Elite’ University." Duke University Academic Skills Center Working Papers ( 1980.).
- Butters, RR. "Report of the Twenty-Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies." American Speech. Edited
by Brien, RJO; 1971, GUP. vol. 41 ( 1969.): 287-92.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Butters, RR. "Review Essay: Current Trends in Variation Theory." Language Problems and Language Planning (Fall, 1985.): 215-27.
- Butters, R,. "Review of 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.
- Butters, RR. "Review of The Origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO Texts by Traute Ewers." Language vol. 74 ( 1996.): 384-384.
- Butters, RR. "ROGER W. SHUY, Linguistics in the courtroom: A practical guide." Language in Society vol. 37 no. 02 (April, 2008.): 300-304. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Bickerton, D. "Roots of Language." Karoma Press, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall, 1983.): 356-58.
- Pyles, T; Butters, R,. "Selected Essays on English Usage." Ed. by John Algeo, U of Florida P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly ( 1980.): 460-61.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Spears, RA; Butters, R,. "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary." Jonathan David Publisher, 1981; Choice ( 1982.): 55-56.
- Newbrook, M; Butters, R,. "Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral, Lang, 1986." English World Wide vol. 8 ( 1987.): 304-7.
- Butters, RR. "Sunbelt English." The New York Times Magazine (August, 1983.): 11-12.
- Fiengo, R; Butters, R,. "Surface Structure: The Interface of Autonomous Components." Harvard Up, 1980; American Speech vol. 58 ( 1983.): 188-188.
- Butters, RR. "Syntactic Change in British English ’Propredicates’." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 16 ( 1983.): 1-7.
- Butters, RR. "Talkin’ Like a Native." The Guide ( 1983.): 21-21.
- Butters, RR. "The Basics in Grammar." Arizona English Bulletin vol. 18 no. 2 ( 1976.): 42-44.
- Butters, RR. "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.
- Butters, RR. "The English of Blacks in Wilmington, N.C.." Language Variation in the South: Perspectives in Black and White. Edited
by Montgomery, M; Bailey, GM. ( 1986.): 255-64. (Ruth M. Nix, 2nd author; read in Columbia, SC, 1981; invited conference paper)
- Butters, RR. "The Forensic Linguist’s Professional Credentials." International Journal of Speech Language and the Law vol. 16 no. 2 (April, 2010.). [doi]
- Butters, RR. "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 Thomas, AR. ( 1988.): 637-49.
- BUTTERS, RR. "THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH: TWO CHALLENGES." American Speech vol. 75 no. 3 (September, 2000.): 283-285. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Pepicello, WJ; Green, TA. "The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives." Ohio State Up, 1984; International Journal of the Sociology of Language vol. 65 ( 1987.): 112-15.
- Brooks, C; Butters, R,. "The Language of the American South." U of Georgia P, 1985; South Atlantic Review ( 1986.): 183-85.
- Butters, RR. "The Problem of Special-Admission Undergraduates." The Academic's Handbook. Edited
by DeNeef, AL; Goodwin, CD; McCrate, ES. ( 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])
- Ricoeur, P; Butters, R,. "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 ( 1980.): 263-69.
- Henry Lewis Gates, J; Butters, R,. "The Signifying Monkey, 1988." The Secol Review vol. 16 ( 1992.): 204-7.
- BUTTERS, RR. "THE TREATMENT OF SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - CHAPMAN,R." South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 85 no. 2 ( 1986.): 208-209. [Gateway.cgi]
- Butters, RR. "The ’Real’ Meaning of millennium." American Speech vol. 75 ( 2000.): 111-2.
- Valdman, A; Highfield, A; Butters, R,. "Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies." Academic Press, 1980; Choice ( 1981.): 159-159.
- Butters, RR. "Thomas Wolfe’s ’Esymplastic’ Power." American Speech vol. 62 no. 1 ( 1987.): 83-84.
- Butters, RR. "Three Traps that Prevent One From Thinking Straight." How to Think Straight Series, Office of the President, Duke University ( 1984.).
- Butters, RR. "TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING WOULD BE WONDERFUL." American Speech vol. 90 no. 1 (January, 2015.): 106-117. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "Two Notes: The Origin of jaywalking; The Pronunciation of Foreign Loanwords in English." Comments on Etymology ( 2000.): 20-21.
- Sugarman, J; Butters, RR. "Understanding the patient: medical words the doctor may not know.." North Carolina Medical Journal vol. 46 no. 7 (July, 1985.): 415-417. (Jeremy Sugarman, first author) [Gateway.cgi]
- Butters, RR. "Variability in Indirect Questions." American Speech vol. 49 no. 3-4 ( 1974.): 230-34.
- Feagin, C; Butters, R,. "Variation and Change in Alabama English." Georgetown Up, 1979; Language vol. 57 ( 1981.): 735-38.
- Bailey, C-J; Butters, R,. "Variation and Linguistic Theory." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973; Language Sciences (April, 1976.): 32-35.
- Butters, RR. "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 (March, 1987.): 9-18.
- Butters, RR. "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)
- Butters, RR. "When is English 'Black English Vernacular'?." Journal of English Linguistics vol. 17 no. 1 (March, 1984.): 29-36. (First read as a paper at the Tenth Annual NWAVE Conference, Philadelphia, 1981) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Butters, RR. "Whose Language Is It, Anyway? It Belongs to Thee." The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure ( 1991.): 5-5.
- Butters, RR. "Why Teach Modern Grammar?." Questions English Teachers Ask. Edited
by Shuman, RB. ( 1977.): 143-54.
- Butters, RR. "’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.).
- Butters, RR. "“What Is About to Take Place Is a Murder": Construing the Racist Subtext in a Small-Town Virginia Courtroom." . Edited
by Griffin, P; Peyton, J; Wolfram, W; Fasold, R. ( 2000.).
Book Reviews
- Walter M. Brasch. "Black English and the Mass Media." U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1983.): 106-7.
- Dennis Baron. "Grammar and Good Taste." Yale UP, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1984.): 471-72.
- 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.
- Wm. E. Kruck. "Looking for Dr. Condom." Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer 1983.): 348.
- Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass. "The African Heritage of American English." 1993; Anthropological Linguistics vol. 36 ( 1994.): 274.
- Raymond Chapman. "The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature." Blackwell, 1984; South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1986.): 208-9.
Other
- Butters, RR. "Composition Guide, Duke University." ( 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)
- Butters, RR; Clum, J; Moon, M. "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)
- Butters, RR. "Stylesheet for Writing." ( 1982.). (8 pp. Xeroxed)
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