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rhetoric
as composition, 30
in ancient Greece, 13
rhythmic patterns
of language, 308
Rickford, 348
right hemisphere
and language, 193
Robinson, 341
Roman education, 6
Roman Empire
collapse of, 17
Rose, 40
Ross, 183
Rumelhart & McClelland, 22, 194, 195,
213

S

Sampson, 194
Sanford & Garrod, 203
Sanskrit, 222
SAT scores
and dropout rates, 34
Schwarz, Barton-Henry, & Pruzinsky, 203
Searle, 209
second-lanaguage learning
and brain function, 192, 193
self-esteem, 45
self-expressive writing, 23
self-organized systems, 298
semantic content, 137
sentence combining, 95
sentence-level modifiers, 214
SES
and education level, 224, 238
influence of, 220, 223, 231
Sesame Street,37, 235
Shopen, 293
shrinking middle class, 231, 232
signification, 283
simple adjective, 78
Singer, 336
slang, 325
Slobin, 237, 238
Slobin & Welsh, 207

Smith, 44, 203

Smolin, 211

social relationship

and code switching, 252

socioeconomic mobility, 33, 345

Sophists

and rhetoric, 4

sorting process

of education, 33

Spanglish, 250

definition of, 245

split infinitives, 11

Springer & Keil, 212

St. Ansgar, 23

St. Augustine, 5, 14

Standard English, 31

Stardust Memories, 205

Steinberg, 22

Steinberg, Darling, & Fletcher, 203

Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Brown, 203

structuralists, 99

Students’ Right to Their Own Language,

33, 226

style

and grammar instruction, 24

subject-verb-complement

SVC word order, 164

Subjunctive

and nonstandard usage, 124

mood, 122–123

submodules, 198

subordinate clauses, 86, 87, 89, 136

and semantic content, 87, 88

subordinating conjunctions, 86

Sullivan, 29, 96

surface structure, 166

surgery

to remove brain tumors, 193

SVO & SVC patterns, 100, 212

Sykes, 222

Syntactic Structures,162, 166, 169, 183,

191

T

Taylor, 183, 192, 198, 201

INDEX 273