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Books

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

Edited

  1. R.R. Butters, J. Clum, and M. Moon, eds.. Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture.  Duke UP, 1989.  (Reprinting, with modifications of SAQ 88.1 [1989]; this book won the 1989 Conference of Editors of Learned Journals Best Special Issue Award)

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. "Lexical Selection and Linguistic Deviance." Papers in Linguistics 1.1 (1969): 170-81.  Revision of paper read at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics meeting in Gainesville, FL, 1969
  2. "On the Interpretation of 'Deviant Utterance'." Journal of Linguistics 6.1 (1970): 105-10.
  3. "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.
  4. "Dialect Variants and Linguistic Deviance." Foundations of Language 7.2 (1971): 239-54.
  5. "A Linguistic View of Negro Intelligence." The Clearing House 46.5 (1972): 259-63.  Reprinted in Current Readings in Urban Education., Ed. by Richard R. Heidenreich (Arlington VA: College Readings, Inc., 1972), 223-27
  6. "Competence, Performance, and Variable Rules." Language Sciences 20 (1972): 29-32.
  7. "Results of Questionnaire [Concerning Variation Theory]." Lectological Newsletter 1 (1972): 1-11.  with Derek Bickerton, Henrietta Cedergren, David Sankoff, Gillian Sankoff, Charles-James N. Bailey, & Ralph Fasold
  8. "Black English {-Z}: Some Theoretical Implications." American Speech 48.1-2 ("(1973 [1975])"): 37-45.  Revision of paper read at the Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting in St. Louis, MO, 1971
  9. "Acceptability Judgments for Double Modals in Southern Dialects." New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English. Ed. Charles-James N. Bailey and Roger W. Shuy. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 1973. 276-86. Papers from the First Annual NWAVE Conference
  10. "Variability in Indirect Questions." American Speech 49.3-4 (1974/5): 230-34.
  11. "The Basics in Grammar." Arizona English Bulletin 18.2 (1976): 42-44.
  12. "More on Indirect Questions." American Speech 51.1-2 (1976 [1980]): 57-62.
  13. "Why Teach Modern Grammar?." Questions English Teachers Ask. Ed. R. Baird Shuman. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden, 1977. 143-54.
  14. "Narrative go 'say'." American Speech 55.4 (1980): 304-7.
  15. "Remedial English, Social Dialects, and the Academically 'Elite' University." Duke University Academic Skills Center Working Papers  (1980)
  16. "A Comment on Sociolinguistics and Teaching Black-Dialect Writers." College English 43.6 (1981): 633-36.
  17. "Do 'Conceptual Metaphors' Really Exist?." The SECOL Bulletin 5.3 (1981): 108-17.  First read as a paper at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics meeting in Richmond, VA, 1981
  18. "Another Point of View." Faculty Newsletter, Duke University 2.7 (Apr. 1981): 9.
  19. "Dropping the /h/ from who." American Speech 57.2 (1982): 43.
  20. "More on duck butter." American Speech 57.2 (1982): 107.
  21. "Quotative like." American Speech 57.2 (1982): 149.
  22. "Dialect at Work: Eudora Welty's Artistic Purposes." Mississippi Folklore Register 16.2 (1982): 33-40.
  23. "On Language." The New York Times Magazine  (25 July 1982)
  24. "Syntactic Change in British English 'Propredicates'." Journal of English Linguistics 16 (1983): 1-7.
  25. "Final Vowels in English." The SECOL Review 7.2 (1983): 1-12.
  26. "-Ologies, -isms, and Dictionary Marking." The Guide  (Sept. 1983): 26-27.  Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12 Sept. 1983
  27. "Talkin' Like a Native." The Guide  (Nov. 1983): 21.
  28. "Sunbelt English." The New York Times Magazine  (21 Aug. 1983): 11-12.
  29. "Three Traps that Prevent One From Thinking Straight." How to Think Straight Series, Office of the President, Duke University  (Jan. 1984)
  30. "When is English 'Black English Vernacular'?." Journal of English Linguistics 17 (1984): 29-36.  First read as a paper at the Tenth Annual NWAVE Conference, Philadelphia, 1981
  31. "-Ologies and -ologists." American Speech 59.3 (1984): 266-67.  Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2nd author
  32. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech 60.3 (1985): 249.  on There you go! as an affirmative interjection
  33. "More on Irony Versus Sarcasm." The Metaphor Research Newsletter 4.2 (1985): 4-7.
  34. "More Medical Words the Doctor May Not Know." North Carolina Medical Journal  (Dec. 1985): 384.  Jeremy Sugarman, first author
  35. "Understanding the Patient: Medical Words the Doctor May Not know." North Carolina Medical Journal  (July, 1985): 415-17.  Jeremy Sugarman, first author
  36. "Query: Sorry 'excuse me'." American Speech 61.1 (1986): 60.
  37. "Existential and Causative have . . . to." American Speech 61.2 (1986): 184-90.  [Kristin Stettler, 2nd author] First read as a paper at the 14th Annual NWAVE Conference, Georgetown University, 1985
  38. "The English of Blacks in Wilmington, N.C.." Language Variation in the South: Perspectives in Black and White. Ed. Michael Montgomery and Guy M. Bailey. U of Alabama P, 1986. 255-64. Ruth M. Nix, 2nd author; read in Columbia, SC, 1981; invited conference paper
  39. "Levels of Usage." chapter 11b of The Heath Handbook, 11th edition.  1986. 118-23. Revision of 10th edition, chapter 8d
  40. "Thomas Wolfe's 'Esymplastic' Power." American Speech 62.1 (1987): 83-84.
  41. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech 60.2 (1987): 184.  on wake 'hold a wake for' as transitive verb
  42. "For the Nonce." American Speech 62.2 (1987): 176-77.  Cynthia Y. Krueger, first author
  43. "Media Watch: Subreption of Pronouns." American Speech 62.2 (1987): 190-91.
  44. "More on Singular y'all." American Speech 62.2 (1987): 191-92.  Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2d author
  45. "Query: Crash space." American Speech 62.3 (1987): 241.
  46. "American Instances of Propredicate do." Journal of English Linguistics 20 (1987): 212-16.  Kazuo Kato, first author
  47. "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 Ed. Keith M. Denning et al.. Stanford University: Department of Linguistics, (1987): 52-60.
  48. "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 Chapel Hill: UNC Curriculum in Linguistics, (21 Mar. 1987): 9-18.
  49. "The Problem of Special-Admission Undergraduates." The Academic's Handbook. Ed. A. Leigh DeNeef, Craufurd D. Goodwin, and Ellen Stern McCrate. Durham: Duke UP, 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]
  50. "Lesson." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wittenberg. Random House, 1988. 348-49.
  51. "The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence." Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, 1987. Ed. Alan R. Thomas. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1988. 637-49.
  52. "Cisatlantic have done." American Speech 64 (1989): 96.
  53. "Are permafrost and vernalization Loan Translations from Russian?." American Speech 64 (1989): 287-88.  Viktor V. Kabakchi, first author
  54. "Foreword." South Atlantic QuarterlyDisplacing Homophobia. Ed. Ron Butters, John Clum, and Michael Moon. 88 (Winter, 1989): 1-5. 1989. 1-5.
  55. "Proactive: A New Meaning?." American Speech 65 (1990): 274.
  56. "Highlighter: A Legally Generic Name?." American Speech 65 (1990): 340.
  57. "Multiple Modals in United States Black English: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects." Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole. Ed. Walter F. Edwards and Donald Winford. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991. 165-76. revision of a paper read at the 16th Annual NWAVE Conference, Austin, TX, 1987
  58. "More on short end of the stick." American Speech 66 (1991): 336.
  59. "Whose Language Is It, Anyway? It Belongs to Thee." The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure. New York: Cornerstone Theater Co., 1991. 5.
  60. "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. Ed. Wolfgang Viereck. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. 3-36. invited plenary lecture. 31 July
  61. "If the Wages of Sin Are for Death: The Semantics and Pragmatics of a Statutory Ambiguity." American Speech 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
  62. "Free Speech and Academic Freedom." The Academic's Handbook. Ed. A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D. Goodwin. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 81-90.
  63. "Historical and Contemporary Distribution of Double Modals in English." FOCUS ON: The United States. Varieties of English Around the World. Ed. Manfred Görlach (General Editor), vol. 16. Ed. by Edgar Schneider. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1996. 265-88. Barbara Fennell, first author
  64. "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. Tokyo: The National Language Research Institute, 1996. 118-34.
  65. "Auntie(-man)/tanti in the Caribbean and North America." Language Variety in the South Revisited. Ed. C. Bernstein, T. Nunnally, and R. Sabino. U of Alabama P, 1997. 261-65. Revision of a paper read at the Conference on Language and Variation in the South, Auburn University, Apr. 1993; invited paper
  66. "Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Theory." Issues and Methods in Dialectology U of Wales Bangor, (1997): 1-13.  Selected Papers from the Ninth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, 31 July 1996; invited plenary lecture
  67. "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 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
  68. "Two Notes: The Origin of jaywalking; The Pronunciation of Foreign Loanwords in English." Comments on Etymology  (Oct. 2000): 20-21.
  69. ""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. Ed. P. Griffin, J. Peyton, W. Wolfram, and R. Fasold. Hampton P, 2000. 373-99. Essays in Honor of Roger Shuy
  70. "Semantic and Pragmatic Variability in Medical Research Terms: Implications for Obtaining Meaningful Informed Consent." American Speech 75 (2000): 149-68.  J. Sugarman and L. Kaplan, 2d and 3d authors
  71. "The 'Real' Meaning of millennium." American Speech 75 (2000): 111-2.
  72. "Conversational Anomalies in Eliciting Danger-of-Death Narratives." Southern Journal of Linguistics 24.1 (2000): 69-81.  Revision of a paper read at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics LXII, Spring Meeting, Oxford Mississippi, 4-6 Apr. 2000
  73. "The Internationalization of American English: Two Challenges." American Speech  (2000)
  74. "Grammar." History of American English Ed. J. Algeo. 6Cambridge UP, (2000)
  75. "“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. Ed. Peg Griffin, Joy Peyton, Walt Wolfram, and Ralph Fasold. Hampton, 2000.
  76. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics  (Mar. 2001)  [author's comments]
  77. "'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] [author's comments]
  78. "Preface." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Ed. Dennis Preston and Daniel Long. 2John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2002. xv-xvi.
  79. "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics  (2004)  [abs] [author's comments]
  80. "Focusing and Diffusion." Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguiswtik: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, vol. 2.. Ed. Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier, & Peter Trudgill. 2dWalter de Gruyter, 2004.

Book Reviews

  1. Maurice Leroy. Main Trends in Modern Linguistics.  U of California P, 1967; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer, 1968): 569-70.
  2.  Report of the Twenty-Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. ed. Richard J. O'Brien, Georgetown UP 1971. American Speech 41 (1969 [1973]): 287-92.
  3. John Lyons. Noam Chomsky.  The Viking Press, 1970; Richmond Times-Dispatch (11 July 1971).
  4.  A Survey of Linguistic Science, Univ. of Maryland Linguistics Program, 1971; and Linguistics in the 1970's, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1971. ed. William Orr Dingwall. American Speech 45 (1973): 122-29.
  5. Leonard R. Palmer. Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics: A Critical Introduction.  Crane, Russak and Co., 1971; Choice (July-Aug. 1973): 654.
  6. Paul R. Turner, ed.. Bilingualism in the Southwest.  U of Arizona P, 1973; Choice (Nov. 1973): 1434.
  7. Martyn F. Wakelin. English Dialects.  Humanities Press, 1972; Choice (Oct. 1975): 1862.
  8. Bruce L. Liles. An Introduction to Linguistics.  Prentice Hall, 1975, Choice (Oct. 1975).
  9. Gordon Winant Hewes. Language Origins: A Bibliography.  Mouton, 1975; Choice (Apr. 1976): 204.
  10. Charles-James Bailey. Variation and Linguistic Theory.  Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973; Language Sciences (Apr. 1976): 32-35.
  11. Carroll E. Reed. Dialects of American English.  2nd ed., U of Massachusetts P, 1977; Choice (Dec. 1977): 1354.
  12. Joey Lee Dillard. American Talk: Where Our Words Came From.  Random House, 1976; Choice (May, 1977): 364.
  13. Ronald Wardhaugh and H. Douglas Brown, eds.. A Survey of Applied Linguistics.  U of Michigan P, 1978; Choice (June, 1977): 527.
  14. Paul D. Brandes and Jeutonne Brewer. Dialect Clash in English: Issues and Answers.  The Scarecrow Press, 1977; Choice (Dec. 1977): 1354.
  15. 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.
  16. Walt Wolfram and Donna Christian. Appalachian Speech,.  Center for Applied Linguistics, 1978; Language 55 (1979): 460-63.
  17. Eva M. Burkett. American English Dialects in Literature.  The Scarecrow Press, 1978; Choice (Mar. 1979): 53.
  18. 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.
  19. James D. McCawley. Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder.  U of Chicago P, 1979; Choice (Jan. 1980): 138.
  20. Andrew Ortony, ed.. Metaphor and Thought.  Cambridge UP, 1979; Choice (Apr. 1980): 96.
  21. Thomas Pyles. Selected Essays on English Usage.  ed. by John Algeo, U of Florida P, 1970; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1980): 460-61.
  22. Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill. English Accents and Dialects.  University Park Press, 1979; American Speech 56 (1981): 234-36.
  23. Crawford Feagin. Variation and Change in Alabama English.  Georgetown UP, 1979; Language 57 (1981): 735-38.
  24. Albert Valdman and Arnold Highfield, eds.. Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies.  Academic Press, 1980; Choice (Sept. 1981): 159.
  25. 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.
  26. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By.  U of Chicago P, 1980; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1982): 128-29.
  27. Richard A. Spears. Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary.  Jonathan David Publisher, 1981; Choice (May 1982): 55-56.
  28. Hugh Rawson. A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk.  Crown Publishers, 1981; American Speech 58 (1983): 60.
  29. Jim Quinn. American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language.  Pantheon, 1981; American Speech 58 (1983): 60.
  30. Donald Koster, ed.. American Literature and Language: A Guide to Information Sources.  Gale Research Co., 1982; American Speech 58 (1983): 188.
  31. Robert Fiengo. Surface Structure: The Interface of Autonomous Components.  Harvard UP, 1980; American Speech 58 (1983): 188.
  32. Wm. E. Kruck. Looking for Dr. Condom.  Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer 1983): 348.
  33. Derek Bickerton. Roots of Language.  Karoma Press, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1983): 356-58.
  34. Walter M. Brasch. Black English and the Mass Media.  U of Massachusetts P, 1981; South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 1983): 106-7.
  35. Dennis Baron. Grammar and Good Taste.  Yale UP, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1984): 471-72.
  36. Wolfgang Viereck , Edgar W. Schneider, and Manfred Gorlach. A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English.  John Benjamins, 1984; American Speech 60 (Spring 1985): 88.
  37.  Review Essay: Current Trends in Variation Theory.  Language Problems and Language Planning (Fall 1985): 215-27.
  38. Cleanth Brooks. The Language of the American South.  U of Georgia P, 1985; South Atlantic Review (Nov. 1986): 183-85.
  39. Laurence Urdang, et. al.. -Ologies and -Isms.  3rd ed., Gale Research, 1986; American Speech 61 (1986): 280.
  40. Raymond Chapman. The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature.  Blackwell, 1984; South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1986): 208-9.
  41. Mark Newbrook. Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral, Lang, 1986.  English World-Wide 8 (1987): 304-7.
  42. W. J. Pepicello and Thomas A. Green. The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives.  Ohio State UP, 1984; International Journal of the Sociology of Language 65 (1987): 112-15.
  43. Viv Edwards. Language in a Black Community, Multilingual Matters, 1986.  Language Problems and Language Planning 11 (220-24).
  44. Wayne Dynes. Homolexis.  Gay Academic Union, 1985; American Speech 63 (1988): 175-76.
  45. Dennis Preston. Perceptual Dialectology, Foris, 1989.  Language in Society 20 (1991): 294-99.
  46. Barbara Leeds. Fairy Tale Rap: "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Other Stories.  1990; American Speech 66 (1991): 104.
  47. Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.. The Signifying Monkey, 1988.  The SECOL Review 16 (1992): 204-7.
  48. 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 68 (1993): 109-12.
  49. Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass. The African Heritage of American English.  1993; Anthropological Linguistics 36 (1994): 274.
  50. Traute Ewers. The Origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO Texts.  Language 74 (1996): 384.
  51. J. Fishman, ed.. Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity.  New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999; Language 76 (2000): 921-23.
  52. 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 7 (2000): 262-66.
  53. James Milroy and Leslie Milroy. Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English.  American Literature 72 (2000): 668-69.

Other

  1. "Stylesheet for Writing." (Sept. 1982). 8 pp. Xeroxed
  2. "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

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