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The workings of language = from prescriptions to perspectives /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The workings of language/ edited by Rebecca S. Wheeler.
Reminder of title:	from prescriptions to perspectives /
other author:	Wheeler, Rebecca S.,
Published:	Westport, Conn. :Praeger, : 1999.,
Description:	xvi, 250 p. ;25 cm.;
Subject:	English language. -
Online resource:	http://www.ebooks.greenwood.com/reader.jsp?x=0275962458&p=cover
ISBN:	0313028176 (electronic bk.)

The workings of language = from prescriptions to perspectives /
The workings of languagefrom prescriptions to perspectives /[electronic resource] :edited by Rebecca S. Wheeler. - Westport, Conn. :Praeger,1999. - xvi, 250 p. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The language mavens / Steven Pinker -- North American varieties of English as byproducts of population contacts / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- African American vernacular English is not standard English with mistakes / Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Home speech as springboard to school speech : Oakland's commendable work on Ebonics / Rebecca S. Wheeler -- Southern mountain English : the language of the Ozarks and Southern Appalachia / Bethany K. Dumas -- On the other hand : American sign language, signed Englishes, and other visual language systems / Lynn S. Messing -- "From out in left field? That's not cricket" : finding a focus for the language curriculum / David Crystal -- Investigating English around the world : the international corpus of English / Gerald Nelson and Bas Aarts -- Speaking of America : why English-only is a bad idea / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Language loss, our loss / Mari Rhydwen -- Metaphor, morality, and politics : or, why conservatives have left liberals in the dust / George Lakoff -- Language as a weapon of hate / Rae A. Moses -- Language and the news media : five facts about the fourth estate / Colleen Cotter -- Life on Mars : language and the instruments of invention / Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier -- Laughing at and laughing with : the linguistics of humor and humor in literature / Victor Raskin -- Women and men in conversation / Deborah Tannen -- Breaking mythical bonds : African American women's language / Denise Troutman.

Electronic reproduction.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2004.

Available via the World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0313028176 (electronic bk.)

Greenwood eBookshttp://www.ebooks.greenwood.com/about.aspSubjects--Topical Terms:

554988
English language.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P106 / .W663 1999eb

Dewey Class. No.: 400

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