Contributors' Column

CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN
American Speech 79(4): np (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-np [PDF]  

Articles

CHARLES F. MEYER

ADS ANNUAL LECTURE: CAN YOU REALLY STUDY LANGUAGE VARIATION IN LINGUISTIC CORPORA?
American Speech 79(4): 339-355 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-339 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

DANIEL LONG and PETER TRUDGILL

THE LAST YANKEE IN THE PACIFIC: EASTERN NEW ENGLAND PHONOLOGY IN THE BONIN ISLANDS
American Speech 79(4): 356-367 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-356 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

HEIDI HARLEY

WHY IS IT THE CIA BUT NOT ^*THE NASA? ACRONYMS, INITIALISMS, AND DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS
American Speech 79(4): 368-399 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-368 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

CAROL L. RUSSELL and THOMAS E. MURRAY

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CARNIE
American Speech 79(4): 400-416 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-400 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

WAYNE GLOWKA, DEBRA DENT, MEGAN MELANÇON, and DAVID K. BARNHART

AMONG THE NEW WORDS
American Speech 79(4): 417-427 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-417 [PDF]  

Reviews

TERRY LYNN IRONS

A DEBT REPAID: HONORING ROGER SHUY: Language in Action: New Studies of Language in Society
Edited by Joy Kreeft Peyton, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram, and Ralph Fasold Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 588.
American Speech 79(4): 428-438 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-428 [PDF]  

GLORIA GREENE

CULTURAL BASIS OF LINGUISTIC STYLE: African American Communication: Exploring Identity and Culture
By Michael L. Hecht, Ronald L. Jackson II, and Sidney A. Ribeau Second ed. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum, 2003. Pp. v + 321.
American Speech 79(4): 438-441 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00031283-79-4-438 [PDF]  

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