Office Location: 314 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Email Address: RonButters@mac.com
Web Page: http://trademarklinguistics.com/

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. "How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of A Massachusetts Lottery Ticket." Applied Linguistics  (2004)  [abs] [author's comments]
2. Butters, RR. "Chance as Cause of Language Variation and Change." Journal of English Linguistics  (2001)  [author's comments]
3. 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] [author's comments]
4. "“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.

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See also my forensic linguistic web site and publications at http://trademarklinguistics.com/ (click on "search" immediately above)