Title: Contours of English and English language studies /
Authors: Adams, Michael, 1945-; Curzan, Anne.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching Case studies.; Academic writing Study and teaching Case studies.
Contents: Michigander talk: God's own English / Dennis R. Preston -- The African American English canon in sociolinguistics / Walt Wolfram -- The beholder's eye: using self-organizing maps to understand American dialects / William A. Kretzshmar -- To continue moving forward in English language and linguistics research in the twenty-first century / Sonja J. Laneheart -- Benjamin Smart and Michael Faraday: the principles and practices of "talking proper" in nineteenth-century England / Lynda Mugglestone -- The etymology of the word wife / Anatoly Liberman -- English into Asia: from Singaporean ubiquity to Chinese learners' features / Edgar W. Schneider -- History of the English language in the English department: past and present / Colette Moore -- New suckers from the old root / Joan Houston Hall -- How quotation paragraphs in historical dictionaries work: the Oxford English dictionary / Jesse Sheidlower -- The core or the periphery? The lack of a Dictionary of Irish English on historical principles / Michael B. Montgomery -- Embracing the digital siren: collaborative lexicography in the twenty-first century / Marsha L. Dutton -- African American language and education: how far have we come? / Geneva Smitherman and Minnie Quartey-Annan -- Language and education: the more things change / Dennis Baron -- Written languae in use: an essay on returning language to writing studies / Amy J. Devitt -- Watch the language: scholarship, teaching, and change / Susanmarie Harrington.