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- "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.
- R.R. Butters. "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics
(2004)
[abs] [author's comments]
- "Preface." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology. Ed. Dennis Preston and Daniel Long. 2John Benjamin Publishing Company,
2002.
xv-xvi.
- R.R. Butters. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics
(Mar. 2001)
[author's comments]
- R.R. Butters. "'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]
- R.R. Butters. "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. Ed. P. Griffin, J. Peyton, W. Wolfram, and R. Fasold. Hampton P,
2000. 373-99. Essays in Honor of Roger Shuy
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "The 'Real' Meaning of millennium." American Speech 75
(2000): 111-2.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "The Internationalization of American English: Two Challenges." American Speech
(2000)
- "Grammar." History of American English Ed. J. Algeo. 6Cambridge UP,
(2000)
- J. Fishman, ed.. Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999; Language 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 7
(2000): 262-66.
- James Milroy and Leslie Milroy. Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English. American Literature 72
(2000): 668-69.
- "“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. Peg Griffin, Joy Peyton, Walt Wolfram, and Ralph Fasold. Hampton,
2000.
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- "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
- R.R. Butters. "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
- Traute Ewers. The Origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO Texts. Language 74
(1996): 384.
- "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
- R.R. Butters. "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.
- "Free Speech and Academic Freedom." The Academic's Handbook. Ed. A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D. Goodwin. Durham: Duke UP,
1995. 81-90.
- Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass. The African Heritage of American English. 1993; Anthropological Linguistics 36
(1994): 274.
- "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
- R.R. Butters. "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
- 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.
- Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.. The Signifying Monkey, 1988. The SECOL Review 16
(1992): 204-7.
- Dennis Preston. Perceptual Dialectology, Foris, 1989. Language in Society 20
(1991): 294-99.
- "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
- R.R. Butters. "More on short end of the stick." American Speech 66
(1991): 336.
- R.R. Butters. "Whose Language Is It, Anyway? It Belongs to Thee." The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure. New York: Cornerstone Theater Co.,
1991. 5.
- Barbara Leeds. Fairy Tale Rap: "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Other Stories. 1990; American Speech 66
(1991): 104.
- R.R. Butters. "Proactive: A New Meaning?." American Speech 65
(1990): 274.
- R.R. Butters. "Highlighter: A Legally Generic Name?." American Speech 65
(1990): 340.
- "Foreword." South Atlantic QuarterlyDisplacing Homophobia. Ed. Ron Butters, John Clum, and Michael Moon. 88
(Winter, 1989): 1-5.
1989. 1-5.
- 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)
- R.R. Butters. The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in White and Black Vernaculars. Peter Lang, Bamberger Beitrage zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 25, 1989.
- R.R. Butters. "Cisatlantic have done." American Speech 64
(1989): 96.
- R.R. Butters. "Are permafrost and vernalization Loan Translations from Russian?." American Speech 64
(1989): 287-88.
Viktor V. Kabakchi, first author
- "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]
- "Lesson." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wittenberg. Random House,
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. Ed. Alan R. Thomas. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters,
1988. 637-49.
- Wayne Dynes. Homolexis. Gay Academic Union, 1985; American Speech 63
(1988): 175-76.
- R.R. Butters. "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.
- Mark Newbrook. Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral, Lang, 1986. English World-Wide 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 65
(1987): 112-15.
- Viv Edwards. Language in a Black Community, Multilingual Matters, 1986. Language Problems and Language Planning 11
(220-24).
- R.R. Butters. "Thomas Wolfe's 'Esymplastic' Power." American Speech 62.1
(1987): 83-84.
- R.R. Butters. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech 60.2
(1987): 184.
on wake 'hold a wake for' as transitive verb
- R.R. Butters. "For the Nonce." American Speech 62.2
(1987): 176-77.
Cynthia Y. Krueger, first author
- R.R. Butters. "Media Watch: Subreption of Pronouns." American Speech 62.2
(1987): 190-91.
- R.R. Butters. "More on Singular y'all." American Speech 62.2
(1987): 191-92.
Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2d author
- R.R. Butters. "Query: Crash space." American Speech 62.3
(1987): 241.
- R.R. Butters. "American Instances of Propredicate do." Journal of English Linguistics 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 Ed. Keith M. Denning et al.. Stanford University: Department of Linguistics,
(1987): 52-60.
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "Query: Sorry 'excuse me'." American Speech 61.1
(1986): 60.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- "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
- R.R. Butters. "Levels of Usage." chapter 11b of The Heath Handbook, 11th edition.
1986. 118-23. Revision of 10th edition, chapter 8d
- Laurence Urdang, et. al.. -Ologies and -Isms. 3rd ed., Gale Research, 1986; American Speech 61
(1986): 280.
- R.R. Butters. Review Essay: Current Trends in Variation Theory. Language Problems and Language Planning
(Fall 1985): 215-27.
- R.R. Butters. "Understanding the Patient: Medical Words the Doctor May Not know." North Carolina Medical Journal
(July, 1985): 415-17.
Jeremy Sugarman, first author
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "Old Curiosity Shop." American Speech 60.3
(1985): 249.
on There you go! as an affirmative interjection
- R.R. Butters. "More on Irony Versus Sarcasm." The Metaphor Research Newsletter 4.2
(1985): 4-7.
- R.R. Butters. "More Medical Words the Doctor May Not Know." North Carolina Medical Journal
(Dec. 1985): 384.
Jeremy Sugarman, first author
- Dennis Baron. Grammar and Good Taste. Yale UP, 1982; South Atlantic Quarterly
(Autumn 1984): 471-72.
- R.R. Butters. "Three Traps that Prevent One From Thinking Straight." How to Think Straight Series, Office of the President, Duke University
(Jan. 1984)
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "-Ologies and -ologists." American Speech 59.3
(1984): 266-67.
Stewart Campbell Aycock, 2nd author
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "Sunbelt English." The New York Times Magazine
(21 Aug. 1983): 11-12.
- Wm. E. Kruck. Looking for Dr. Condom. Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66; South Atlantic Quarterly
(Summer 1983): 348.
- R.R. Butters. "Syntactic Change in British English 'Propredicates'." Journal of English Linguistics 16
(1983): 1-7.
- R.R. Butters. "Final Vowels in English." The SECOL Review 7.2
(1983): 1-12.
- R.R. Butters. "-Ologies, -isms, and Dictionary Marking." The Guide
(Sept. 1983): 26-27.
Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12 Sept. 1983
- R.R. Butters. "Talkin' Like a Native." The Guide
(Nov. 1983): 21.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- Hugh Rawson. A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. Crown Publishers, 1981; American Speech 58
(1983): 60.
- Jim Quinn. American Tongue and Cheek: A Populist Guide to Our Language. Pantheon, 1981; American Speech 58
(1983): 60.
- Donald Koster, ed.. American Literature and Language: A Guide to Information Sources. Gale Research Co., 1982; American Speech 58
(1983): 188.
- Robert Fiengo. Surface Structure: The Interface of Autonomous Components. Harvard UP, 1980; American Speech 58
(1983): 188.
- R.R. Butters. "On Language." The New York Times Magazine
(25 July 1982)
- R.R. Butters. "Dropping the /h/ from who." American Speech 57.2
(1982): 43.
- R.R. Butters. "More on duck butter." American Speech 57.2
(1982): 107.
- R.R. Butters. "Quotative like." American Speech 57.2
(1982): 149.
- R.R. Butters. "Dialect at Work: Eudora Welty's Artistic Purposes." Mississippi Folklore Register 16.2
(1982): 33-40.
- R.R. Butters. "Stylesheet for Writing." (Sept. 1982). 8 pp. Xeroxed
- 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 56
(1981): 234-36.
- Crawford Feagin. Variation and Change in Alabama English. Georgetown UP, 1979; Language 57
(1981): 735-38.
- R.R. Butters. "A Comment on Sociolinguistics and Teaching Black-Dialect Writers." College English 43.6
(1981): 633-36.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "Another Point of View." Faculty Newsletter, Duke University 2.7
(Apr. 1981): 9.
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "Narrative go 'say'." American Speech 55.4
(1980): 304-7.
- R.R. Butters. "Remedial English, Social Dialects, and the Academically 'Elite' University." Duke University Academic Skills Center Working Papers
(1980)
- 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 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.
- "Why Teach Modern Grammar?." Questions English Teachers Ask. Ed. R. Baird Shuman. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden,
1977. 143-54.
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "The Basics in Grammar." Arizona English Bulletin 18.2
(1976): 42-44.
- R.R. Butters. "More on Indirect Questions." American Speech 51.1-2
(1976 [1980]): 57-62.
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "Variability in Indirect Questions." American Speech 49.3-4
(1974/5): 230-34.
- 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.
- "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
- 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.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "Competence, Performance, and Variable Rules." Language Sciences 20
(1972): 29-32.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- R.R. Butters. "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.
- R.R. Butters. "Dialect Variants and Linguistic Deviance." Foundations of Language 7.2
(1971): 239-54.
- John Lyons. Noam Chomsky. The Viking Press, 1970; Richmond Times-Dispatch
(11 July 1971).
- R.R. Butters. "On the Interpretation of 'Deviant Utterance'." Journal of Linguistics 6.1
(1970): 105-10.
- R.R. Butters. "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
- 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.
- Maurice Leroy. Main Trends in Modern Linguistics. U of California P, 1967; South Atlantic Quarterly
(Summer, 1968): 569-70.
- R.R. Butters. Trademarks as Linguistic Objects. in progress.
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