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Applied Linguistics: Miscellaneous Topics

Aitchison, Jean.  The Articulate Mammal.  4th ed.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

 
Armstrong, David F., William C. Stokoe, and Sherman E. Wilcox. Gesture and the Nature of Language.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Attardo, Salvatore.  Linguistic Theories of Humor.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. rev. in Language 72.1 (1996): 132-36.

Battistella, Edwin L.  Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others?  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005

Eco, Umberto.  The Search for the Perfect Language.  Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1995.

Goddard, Angela.  The Language of Advertising.  New York: Routledge, 1998.

 
Lakoff, George.  Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don’t.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.

Parasnis, Ila, ed.  Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Stuart G. Shanker, and Talbot J. Traylor. Apes, Language,  and the Human Mind.  New  York: Oxford UP, 1998.

Shuy, Roger W.  Linguistics in the Courtroom: A Practical Guide.  New York: Oxford UP, 2006.

Solan, Lawrence M., and Peter M. Tiersma.  Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.

Sperber, Dan, and Deirdre Wilson.  Relevance: Communication and Cognition.  2nd ed. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Thompson, Geoff.  Introducing Functional Grammar.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Wallman, J.  Aping Language.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Yamada, Haru.  Different Games, Different Rules: Why American and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other.  New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

Discourse Analysis

Dijk, Teun A. van, ed.  Discourse as Social Interaction.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.

Gee, James Paul.  An Introduction to Discourse Analysis.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Lemke, Jay.  Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics.  London: Taylor and  Francis,1995.

Macovski, Michael.  Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical  Theory.  New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

Ochs, Elinor, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds.  Interaction and  Grammar.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Salamensky, Shelly, ed.  Talk, Talk, Talk.  New  York: Routledge, 2000.

Schiffrin, Deborah.  Approaches to Discourse.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1993.

Gender and Language

Baron, Dennis.  Grammar and Gender.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

Bucholtz, Mary, A.C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton.  Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Cameron, Deborah, ed.  The Feminist Critique of Language.  2nd. ed.  New York:   Routledge, 1998.

Coates, Jennifer, ed.  Language and Gender: A Reader.  New York: Basil Blackwell,  1998.

Frank, Francine Wattman, and Paula A. Treichler.  Language, Gender, and Professional Writing.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.

Gal, Susan.  "Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a 
 Bilingual Community."  Language in Society 7 (1978): 1-16.

Hall, Kira, and Mary Bucholtz, eds.  Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially  Constructed Self.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Johnson, Sally, and Ulrike Meinhoff, eds.  Language and Masculinity.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1996.

Labov, William.  "The Intersection of Sex and Social Class in the Course of Linguistic  Change."  Language Variation and Change 2 (1990): 205-51.

Language in Society, Volume 32, Number 3 (June 2003) focuses entirely on research in language and gender.

Litosseliti, Lia.  Gender and Language: An Introduction and Resource Book.  New York: Oxford UP, 2006.

Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall, eds.  Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality.   New York: Oxford UP, 1997. 

Maltz, Daniel N., and Ruth A. Borker.  "A Cultural Approach to Male-Female 
Miscommunication."  Language and Social Identity.  John J. Gumperz, ed. 
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.  196-216.

McConnell-Ginet, Sally..  "Language and Gender."  Linguistics: The Cambridge 
Survey.  Vol. 4.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.  75-99.

Nilsen, Allen Pace, Haig Bosmajian, H. Lee Gershuny, and Julia P. Stanley. Sexism and  Language.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1977.

Philips, Susan U., Susan Steele, and Christine Tanz.  Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Romaine, Suzanne.  Communicating Gender.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999.

Roman, Camille, Suzanne Juhasz, and Cristanne Miller, eds.  The Women and Language  Debate: A Sourcebook.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1994.

Tannen, Deborah. Gender and Discourse.  New York: Oxford UP, 1994.

Thorne, Barrie, and Nancy Henley, eds.  Language and Sex: Difference and 
Dominance.  Rowley, MA: Newbury, 1975.

Thorne, Barrie, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley, eds.  Language, Gender, 
     and Society.  Rowley, MA: Newbury, 1975.

General Linguistics

Aitchison, Jean.  The Seeds of Speech: Language: Origin and Evolution.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Aronoff, Mark, and Janie Rees-Miller, eds.  The Handbook of Linguistics.  New York:  Basil Blackwell, 2000.

Chomsky, Noam.  New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 2000.

Clark, Herbert H.  Using Language.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Gumperz, John J., and Stephen C. Levinson, eds.  Rethinking Linguistic Relativity.   New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.  (This book is about language and culture; it includes considerations of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis.)

Pinker, Steven.  The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.  New York:  Perennial, 2000.

---.  Words and Rules.  New York: Perennial, 2000.

Genetic and Biological Approaches to Language

King, Barbara J., ed.  The Origins of Language: What Non-Human Primates Can Tell Us.  Santa Fe, NM: School of America Research, 1999.

Lieberman, Philip.  Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006.

Mithen, Steven.  The Singing Neanderthals.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006.

History of English

Bauer, Laurie.  Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study of 
Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the Twentieth Century.  London: 
Longman, 1994.

Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable.  History of the English Language.  Englewood  Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall 1993.

Bernstein, Cynthia, Thomas Nunnally, and Robin Sabino, eds.  Language Variety in the South Revisited.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.

Bex, Tony, and Richard J. Watts.  Standard English: The Widening Debate.  London:  Routledge, 1999.

Blake, N.F.  A History of the English Language.  New York UP, 1997.

Bryson, Bill.  Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way.  New York: 
Morrow, 1996.

Fennell, Barbara A.  A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach.  Cambridge,  MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001.

Flexner, Stuart Berg, and Anne H. Soukhanov, eds.  Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of  American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley.  New York: Oxford UP,  1997.

Goerlach, Manfred.  New Studies in Varieties of English, 1988-1994.  New York: John  Benjamins, 1996.

Green, D.H.  Language and History in the Early Germanic World.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1998.

Hughes, Arthur, and Peter Trudgill.  English Accents and Dialects.  3rd ed.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Hughes, Geoffrey.  Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Lanehart, Sonja L., ed.  Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American  Vernacular English.  John Benjamins, 2001.

McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil.  The Story of English.  New York: Penguin, 1993.

Milward, C.M.  A Biography of the English Language.  2nd ed.  Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1996.

Mitchell, Bruce.  An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. 
Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1996.

Montgomery, Michael.  “The Future of Southern American English.” SECOL Review 20.1  (1996): 1-24.

Pyles, Thomas, and John Algeo.  The Origins and Development of the English
Language.  4th ed.  Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993.

Romaine, Suzanne, ed.  Language in Australia.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. rev. in Language 72.2 (1996): 380-83.

Trudgill, Peter, and Jean Hannah, eds.  International English: A Guide to the 
 Varieties of Standard English.  3rd ed.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1994.

Wright, Laura, ed.  The Development of Standard English 1300-1800.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

History of Linguistics

Barksy, Robert F.  Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.  Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1997.

Chapman, Siobhan, and Christopher Routledge, eds.  Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.

Falk, Julia S.  Women, Language, and Linguistics.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Harris, Randy Allen.  The Linguistics Wars.  New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Newmeyer, Frederick.  Generative Linguistics: A Historical Perspective, 1996.

Seuren, Pieter A. M.  Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction.  New York:  Basil Blackwell, 1997.

Smith, Neil.  Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Valentine, Lisa Phillips, and Regina Darnell, eds.  Theorizing the Americanist Tradition. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999.

Versteegh, Kees.  Landmarks in Linguistic Thought III: The Arabic Linguistic  Tradition.  New York: Routledge, 1997.

Historical Linguistics

Aitchison, Jean.  Language Change: Progress or Decay?  3rd ed.  New York: 
Cambridge UP, 2001.

Barber, E.J.W.  Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with Special Reference to the Aegean.  Princeton: Princeton  UP, 1991. rev in Language 72.2 (1996): 392-95.

Bomhard, Allan R., and John C. Kerns.  The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in  Distant Linguistic Relationship.  New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
rev in Language 72.3 (1996): 656-57.

Clyne, Michael.  The German Language in a Changing Europe.  Rev. ed.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1996.

Fox, Anthony.  Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Method.  New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
rev. in Language 72.2 (1996): 387-92.

Giacalone, Ramat, and Paolo Ramat, eds.  Le Lingue Indoeuropee.  Bologna, 
Italy: Societa Editrice il Mulino, 1993.
rev. in Language 72.3 (1996): 637-39.

Hock, Hans Henrich, and Brian D. Joseph.  Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship.  New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.

Joseph, Brian D., and Richard D. Janda, eds.  The Handbook of Historical Linguistics.  New York: Blackwell, 2003.

Lyovin, Anatole V.  An Introduction to Languages of the World.  New York: Oxford  UP, 1997.

Nichols, Johanna, and David A. Peterson.  “The Amerind Personal Pronouns.”  Language 72.2 (1996): 336-71.

Saenz-Badillos, Angel.  A History of the Hebrew Language.  Trans. John Elwolde.  New  York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Trask, Larry.  Historical Linguistics.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.
---.  The History of Basque.  New York: Routledge, 1997.

Language and Literature/Stylistics

Bradford, Richard.  Stylistics. New York: Routledge, 1997.

McCarthy, Michael and Ronald Carter.  Language as Discourse.  London: 
Longman, 1994.

Person, Raymond F., Jr.  Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature.  UP of America, 1999.

Short, Mick.  Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays, and Prose.  London: 
Longman, 1996.

Simpson, Paul.  Language Through Literature: An Introduction.  New York: 
Routledge, 1997.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Mary Louise Pratt.  Linguistics for Students of 
Literature.  New York: Harcourt, 1980.

Turner, Mark.  The Literary Mind.  New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Weber, Jean Jacques.  The Stylistics Reader: from Roman Jacobson to the 
Present.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Sociolinguistics

Bauer, Laurie, and Peter Trudgill, eds.  Language Myths.  New  York: Penguin, 1999.

Coulmas, Florian, ed.  The Handbook of Sociolinguistics.  New York: Basil 
Blackwell, 1996.

Coupland, Nikolas, and Adam Jaworski, ed.  Sociolinguistics: A Reader.  New York:  St. Martin’s, 1997.

Fishman, Joshua A., ed.  Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Gumperz, John J., ed.  Language and Social Identity.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.

Hudson, R.A.  Sociolinguistics.  2nd ed.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Linn, Michael D., ed.  Handbook of Dialects and Language Variation.  2nd ed. 
San Diego: Academic P, 1998.

Milroy, Lesley, and Pieter Muysken.  One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-disciplinary  Perspectives on Code-switching.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Mufwene, Salikoko S., John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey, and John Baugh, eds. 
African American English: Structure, History, and Use.  New York: 
Routledge, 1998.

Poplack, Shana.  The English History of African American English.  New York:  Basil Blackwell, 1999.

Smitherman, Geneva.  Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Trudgill, Peter.  Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society. 
New York: Penguin, 1986.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes.  American English: Dialects and Variation. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1998.

Syntax

Boskovic, Zeljko, and Howard Lasnik.  Minimalist Syntax: The Essential Readings.  New York: Blackwell, 2005.

Brown, Roger, and Ursula Bellugi.  "Three Processes in the Child's Acquisition
of Syntax."  In Perspectives on Language & Literacy.  Ed. Sarah W. Beck and  Leslie Nabors Olah.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, 2001.

Haegeman, Liliane.  Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis.  New York: Blackwell, 2005.

Kayne, Richard S., and Raffaella Zanuttini, eds.  Syntactic Theory: The Essential Readings.  New York: Blackwell, 2005.

Martin, J.R., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, and Clare Painter. Working with Functional  Grammar.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Silva, Marilyn.  Grammar in Many Voices.  Lincolnwood, IL: NTC, 1995.

Thomas, Linda.  Beginning Syntax.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1993.

 
Wardhaugh, Ronald.  Understanding English Grammar.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1995.