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Publications of Ronald R. Butters    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. 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.
  2. Butters, RR. The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in White and Black Vernaculars. Peter Lang, Bamberger Beitrage zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 25, 1989.
  3. Butters, RR. Trademarks as Linguistic Objects. in progress. 2007 pages pp.

Articles & Book Chapters

  1. 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)
  2. Urdang, L; al, E; Butters, R,. "-Ologies and -Isms." 3rd Ed., Gale Research, 1986; American Speech  vol. 61 ( 1986.): 280-280.
  3. Butters, RR. "-Ologies and -ologists." American Speech  vol. 59 no. 3 ( 1984.): 266-67. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2nd author)
  4. Butters, RR. "-Ologies, -isms, and Dictionary Marking." The Guide  ( 1983.): 26-27. (Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12 Sept. 1983)
  5. 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]
  6. 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.
  7. Butters, RR. "A Comment on Sociolinguistics and Teaching Black-Dialect Writers." College English  vol. 43 no. 6 ( 1981.): 633-36.
  8. Rawson, H; Butters, R,. "A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk." Crown Publishers, 1981; American Speech  vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60-60.
  9. 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)
  10. Wardhaugh, R; Brown, HD; Butters, R,. "A Survey of Applied Linguistics." U of Michigan P, 1978; Choice  (June, 1977.): 527-527.
  11. 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.
  12. 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)
  13. McCawley, JD; Butters, R,. "Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder." U of Chicago P, 1979; Choice  ( 1980.): 138-138.
  14. Burkett, EM; Butters, R,. "American English Dialects in Literature." The Scarecrow Press, 1978; Choice  ( 1979.): 53-53.
  15. 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]
  16. 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.
  17. Dillard, JL; Butters, R,. "American Talk: Where Our Words Came From." Random House, 1976; Choice  (May, 1977.): 364-364.
  18. Quinn, J; Butters, R,. "American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language." Pantheon, 1981; American Speech  vol. 58 ( 1983.): 60-60.
  19. Liles, BL; Butters, R,. "An Introduction to Linguistics." Prentice Hall, 1975, Choice  (October, 1975.).
  20. Butters, RR. "Another Point of View." Faculty Newsletter, Duke University  vol. 2 no. 7 ( 1981.): 9-9.
  21. Wolfram, W; Christian, D; Butters, R,. "Appalachian Speech,." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1978; Language  vol. 55 ( 1979.): 460-63.
  22. 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]
  23. 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)
  24. Butters, RR. "Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English." American Literature  vol. 72 no. 3 (September, 2000.): 668-669. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  25. Turner, PR; ed, ; Butters, R,. "Bilingualism in the Southwest." U of Arizona P, 1973; Choice  ( 1973.): 1434-1434.
  26. 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)
  27. Brasch, WM. "Black English and the Mass Media." U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly  ( 1989.): 106-7.
  28. Butters, RR. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics  ( 2001.).
  29. BUTTERS, RR. "CIS-ATLANTIC HAVE-DONE." American Speech  vol. 64 no. 1 ( 1989.): 96-96. [Gateway.cgi]
  30. Butters, RR. "Competence, Performance, and Variable Rules." Language Sciences  vol. 20 ( 1972.): 29-32.
  31. 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)
  32. 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)
  33. Palmer, LR; Butters, R,. "Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics: A Critical Introduction." Crane, Russak and Co., 1971; Choice  ( 1973.): 654-654.
  34. Butters, RR. "Dialect at Work: Eudora Welty’s Artistic Purposes." Mississippi Folklore Register  vol. 16 no. 2 ( 1982.): 33-40.
  35. Brandes, PD; Brewer, J; Butters, R,. "Dialect Clash in English: Issues and Answers." The Scarecrow Press, 1977; Choice  (December, 1977.): 1354-1354.
  36. Butters, RR. "Dialect Variants and Linguistic Deviance." Foundations of Language  vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1971.): 239-54.
  37. 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)
  38. 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.
  39. Reed, CE; Butters, R,. "Dialects of American English." 2nd Ed., U of Massachusetts P, 1977; Choice  ( 1977.): 1354-1354.
  40. 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)
  41. Butters, RR. "Dropping the /h/ from who." American Speech  vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 43-43.
  42. Hughes, A; Trudgill, P; Butters, R,. "English Accents and Dialects." University Park Press, 1979; American Speech  vol. 56 ( 1981.): 234-36.
  43. Wakelin, MF; Butters, R,. "English Dialects." Humanities Press, 1972; Choice  ( 1975.): 1862-1862.
  44. 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)
  45. Leeds, B; Butters, R,. "Fairy Tale Rap: "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Other Stories." 1990; American Speech  vol. 66 ( 1991.): 104-104.
  46. Butters, RR. "Final Vowels in English." The Secol Review  vol. 7 no. 2 ( 1983.): 1-12.
  47. 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.).
  48. Butters, RR. "For the Nonce." American Speech  vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 176-77. (Cynthia Y. Krueger, first author)
  49. Butters, RR. "Forensic Linguistics." Journal of English Linguistics  vol. 39 no. 2 (June, 2011.): 196-202. [doi]
  50. "Foreword." South Atlantic QuarterlyDisplacing Homophobia. Edited by Ron Butters, John Clum, and Michael Moon.  vol. 88 (Winter, 1989.): 1-5.
  51. Butters, RR. "Free Speech and Academic Freedom." The Academic's Handbook. Edited by DeNeef, AL; Goodwin, CD.  ( 1995.): 81-90.
  52. Matthews, D; Tomasello, M. "Grammar." . Edited by Algeo, J.  vol. 1-3 (January, 2008.): 38-50. [doi]  [abs]
  53. Baron, D. "Grammar and Good Taste." Yale Up, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly  (April, 2014.): 471-72.
  54. Butters, RR; Fishman, JA. "Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity." Language  vol. 76 no. 4 (December, 2000.): 921-921. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  55. Butters, RR. "Highlighter: A Legally Generic Name?." American Speech  vol. 65 ( 1990.): 340-340.
  56. 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)
  57. Dynes, W; Butters, R,. "Homolexis." Gay Academic Union, 1985; American Speech  vol. 63 ( 1988.): 175-76.
  58. 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]
  59. "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics  (2004.).  [abs]
  60. Raymond, JC; Russell, IW; Butters, R,. "James B. McMillan, Essays in Linguistics by his Friends." U of Alabama P, 1978; Choice  ( 1978.): 684-684.
  61. Edwards, V; Butters, R,. "Language in a Black Community, Multilingual Matters, 1986." Language Problems and Language Planning  vol. 11 ( 1987.).
  62. Butters, RR. "Language in the USA: Themes for the twenty-first century." Language  vol. 83 no. 4 (December, 2007.): 883-886. [Gateway.cgi]
  63. Hewes, GW; Butters, R,. "Language Origins: A Bibliography." Mouton, 1975; Choice  ( 1976.): 204-204.
  64. Butters, RR. "Language, Meaning and the Law by Chris Hutton." Journal of Sociolinguistics  vol. 15 no. 4 (September, 2011.): 532-537. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  65. Butters, RR. "Lesson." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Edited by Stang, SJ; Wittenberg, R.  ( 1988.): 348-49.
  66. Butters, RR. "Levels of Usage." chapter 11b of The Heath Handbook, 11th edition  ( 1986.): 118-23. (Revision of 10th edition, chapter 8d)
  67. 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)
  68. 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.
  69. Kruck, WE. "Looking for Dr. Condom." Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly  (April, 2014.): 348-348.
  70. Leroy, M. "Main Trends in Modern Linguistics." U of California P, 1967; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Summer, 1969.): 569-70.
  71. BUTTERS, RR. "MEDIA WATCH - SUBREPTION OF PRONOUNS." American Speech  vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 190-191. [Gateway.cgi]
  72. Ortony, A; ed, ; Butters, R,. "Metaphor and Thought." Cambridge Up, 1979; Choice  ( 1980.): 96-96.
  73. Lakoff, G; Johnson, M. "Metaphors We Live By." U of Chicago P, 1980; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 1983.): 128-29.
  74. Butters, RR. "More Medical Words the Doctor May Not Know." North Carolina Medical Journal  ( 1985.): 384-384. (Jeremy Sugarman, first author)
  75. Butters, RR. "More on duck butter." American Speech  vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 107-107.
  76. Butters, RR. "More on Indirect Questions." American Speech  vol. 51 no. 1/2 ( 1976.): 57-57. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  77. Butters, RR. "More on Irony Versus Sarcasm." The Metaphor Research Newsletter  vol. 4 no. 2 ( 1985.): 4-7.
  78. Butters, RR. "More on short end of the stick." American Speech  vol. 66 ( 1991.): 336-336.
  79. BUTTERS, RR. "MORE ON SINGULAR YALL." American Speech  vol. 62 no. 2 ( 1987.): 191-192. (Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2d author) [Gateway.cgi]
  80. 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)
  81. Butters, RR. "Narrative Go 'Say'." American Speech  vol. 55 no. 4 ( 1980.): 304-304. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  82. Lyons, J; Butters, R,. "Noam Chomsky." The Viking Press, 1970; Richmond Times Dispatch  ( 1971.).
  83. Butters, RR. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech  vol. 60 no. 2 ( 1987.): 184-184. (on wake 'hold a wake for' as transitive verb)
  84. Butters, RR. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech  vol. 60 no. 3 ( 1985.): 249-249. (on There you go! as an affirmative interjection)
  85. Butters, RR. "On Language." The New York Times Magazine  (July, 1982.).
  86. "On the Interpretation of ’Deviant Utterance’." Journal of Linguistics  vol. 6 no. 1 ( 1970.): 105-10.
  87. 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.
  88. Preston, D; Butters, R,. "Perceptual Dialectology, Foris, 1989." Language in Society  vol. 20 ( 1991.): 294-99.
  89. Fields, B; Page, K. "Preface."   vol. 2015-June (January, 2015.).
  90. "Preface." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Edited by Dennis Preston and Daniel Long.  vol. 2 (2002.): xv-xvi.
  91. Butters, RR. "Proactive: A New Meaning?." American Speech  vol. 65 ( 1990.): 274-274.
  92. Butters, RR. "Query: Crash space." American Speech  vol. 62 no. 3 ( 1987.): 241-241.
  93. Butters, RR. "Query: Sorry ’excuse me’." American Speech  vol. 61 no. 1 ( 1986.): 60-60.
  94. Butters, RR. "Quotative like." American Speech  vol. 57 no. 2 ( 1982.): 149-149.
  95. Butters, RR. "Remedial English, Social Dialects, and the Academically ’Elite’ University." Duke University Academic Skills Center Working Papers  ( 1980.).
  96. 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.
  97. 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)
  98. Butters, RR. "Review Essay: Current Trends in Variation Theory." Language Problems and Language Planning  (Fall, 1985.): 215-27.
  99. 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.
  100. 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.
  101. 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]
  102. Bickerton, D. "Roots of Language." Karoma Press, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall, 1983.): 356-58.
  103. Pyles, T; Butters, R,. "Selected Essays on English Usage." Ed. by John Algeo, U of Florida P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly  ( 1980.): 460-61.
  104. 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)
  105. Spears, RA; Butters, R,. "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary." Jonathan David Publisher, 1981; Choice  ( 1982.): 55-56.
  106. Newbrook, M; Butters, R,. "Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral, Lang, 1986." English World Wide  vol. 8 ( 1987.): 304-7.
  107. Butters, RR. "Sunbelt English." The New York Times Magazine  (August, 1983.): 11-12.
  108. Fiengo, R; Butters, R,. "Surface Structure: The Interface of Autonomous Components." Harvard Up, 1980; American Speech  vol. 58 ( 1983.): 188-188.
  109. Butters, RR. "Syntactic Change in British English ’Propredicates’." Journal of English Linguistics  vol. 16 ( 1983.): 1-7.
  110. Butters, RR. "Talkin’ Like a Native." The Guide  ( 1983.): 21-21.
  111. Butters, RR. "The Basics in Grammar." Arizona English Bulletin  vol. 18 no. 2 ( 1976.): 42-44.
  112. 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.
  113. 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)
  114. Butters, RR. "The Forensic Linguist’s Professional Credentials." International Journal of Speech Language and the Law  vol. 16 no. 2 (April, 2010.). [doi]
  115. 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.
  116. BUTTERS, RR. "THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH: TWO CHALLENGES." American Speech  vol. 75 no. 3 (September, 2000.): 283-285. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  117. 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.
  118. Brooks, C; Butters, R,. "The Language of the American South." U of Georgia P, 1985; South Atlantic Review  ( 1986.): 183-85.
  119. 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])
  120. 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.
  121. Henry Lewis Gates, J; Butters, R,. "The Signifying Monkey, 1988." The Secol Review  vol. 16 ( 1992.): 204-7.
  122. BUTTERS, RR. "THE TREATMENT OF SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - CHAPMAN,R." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 85 no. 2 ( 1986.): 208-209. [Gateway.cgi]
  123. Butters, RR. "The ’Real’ Meaning of millennium." American Speech  vol. 75 ( 2000.): 111-2.
  124. Valdman, A; Highfield, A; Butters, R,. "Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies." Academic Press, 1980; Choice  ( 1981.): 159-159.
  125. Butters, RR. "Thomas Wolfe’s ’Esymplastic’ Power." American Speech  vol. 62 no. 1 ( 1987.): 83-84.
  126. Butters, RR. "Three Traps that Prevent One From Thinking Straight." How to Think Straight Series, Office of the President, Duke University  ( 1984.).
  127. Butters, RR. "TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING WOULD BE WONDERFUL." American Speech  vol. 90 no. 1 (January, 2015.): 106-117. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  128. Butters, RR. "Two Notes: The Origin of jaywalking; The Pronunciation of Foreign Loanwords in English." Comments on Etymology  ( 2000.): 20-21.
  129. 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]
  130. Butters, RR. "Variability in Indirect Questions." American Speech  vol. 49 no. 3-4 ( 1974.): 230-34.
  131. Feagin, C; Butters, R,. "Variation and Change in Alabama English." Georgetown Up, 1979; Language  vol. 57 ( 1981.): 735-38.
  132. Bailey, C-J; Butters, R,. "Variation and Linguistic Theory." Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973; Language Sciences  (April, 1976.): 32-35.
  133. 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.
  134. 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)
  135. 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]
  136. Butters, RR. "Whose Language Is It, Anyway? It Belongs to Thee." The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure  ( 1991.): 5-5.
  137. Butters, RR. "Why Teach Modern Grammar?." Questions English Teachers Ask. Edited by Shuman, RB.  ( 1977.): 143-54.
  138. 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]
  139. "“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.).
  140. 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

  1. Walter M. Brasch. "Black English and the Mass Media." U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter 1983.): 106-7.
  2. Dennis Baron. "Grammar and Good Taste." Yale UP, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Autumn 1984.): 471-72.
  3. 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.
  4. Wm. E. Kruck. "Looking for Dr. Condom." Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Summer 1983.): 348.
  5. Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass. "The African Heritage of American English." 1993; Anthropological Linguistics  vol. 36 ( 1994.): 274.
  6. Raymond Chapman. "The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature." Blackwell, 1984; South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring 1986.): 208-9.

Other

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. Butters, RR. "Stylesheet for Writing."   ( 1982.). (8 pp. Xeroxed)

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