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to accomplish. I can say with complete honesty that I have no illusions about saving the world or initiating an era of universal ...

One fall while I was teaching what was my signature course, Language & Discrimination, I had an unusual conversation with a ...

reports, court cases, and government documents to my bibliography. I have never lacked for reading material. As a result, pretty ...

Acknowledgements There were dozens of people who contributed to writing the first edition of this book, many of whom were good e ...

Introduction Language ideology or science fiction? The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as po ...

health problems greatly simplified or resolved overnight. Dramatic changes in the way we think about food. As metabolism is now ...

Imagine now that this unanticipated and unwilled transformation does not take place. Instead, a junior Congresswoman rises befor ...

first line, and by will and habit only secondarily. Language – which languages we speak, and how we speak them – is a matter of ...

Who claims authority to make these decisions, how do they manage to do this, and why do people let them? All of these questions ...

The Linguistic Facts of Life 1 To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it is my job to p ...

of neuropsychological, neuroimaging and genetic investigations of three generations of one family with severe speech and languag ...

themselves with the written data of lost language communities and write complex formulas for the reconstruction of sounds that m ...

All spoken languages are equal in terms of linguistic potential. Grammaticality and communicative effectiveness are distinct and ...

static.^5 This is as true in Asia as it is in on the North American continent, as it is for every language in the world. Linguis ...

Finally, it is important to keep in mind that what we know about the history of English is subject to ideological retellings. It ...

engineering, or genetic mapping. When our technology evolved to the point that we needed to discuss such things, so did our lang ...

Other languages are not so lax: the Romance languages (and many others) distinguish between singular and plural personal pronoun ...

considered awkward (Whoever it is, I won’t see him or her tonight). Nor does it work to use the neutral single pronoun: (*Whoeve ...

“Would you [single eye contact] like to have a meal with me?” “Would you [multiple eye contact] like to have a meal with me?” It ...

The ‘mistakes’ in these sentences would be more or less obvious to people who concern themselves with such things, with the poss ...