What I've Been Reading Lately*
2008

Avocational

Vocational

  • Jonathan Rée, I See A Voice: Deafness, Language, and the Senses--A Philosophical History (1999)
  • Richard M. Magee, "Food Puritanism and Food Pornography: The Gourmet Semiotics of Martha and Nigella," Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (2007)
  • Andrew Ferguson, Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America (2007)
  • Michael Bérubé, What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? (2006)
  • Caleb Crain, "Twilight of the Books," New Yorker (2007)
  • Barbara E. Lovitts, Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation (2007)
  • Maxwell Hoffmann, "Creating a New Language for Nutrition: McDonald's Universal Icons for 109 Countries," Clientside News (2007)
  • Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Essays on Poetry (2003)
  • Boyd, Danah. "Viewing American Class Divisions through Facebook and MySpace," Apophenia Blog Essay (2007)
  • Ilona Bray, Alayna Schroeder, and Marcia Stewart, Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home (2007)
  • Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagina, and Lara Zwarun, "College Student Web Use, Perceptions of Information, Credibility, and Verification Behavior," Computers and Education (2003)
  • Rena Helms-Park, Pavlina Radia, Paul Stapleton, "A Preliminary Assessment of Google Scholar as a Source of EAP Students' Research Materials," The Internet and Higher Education (2007)
  • Frances Trix and Carolyn Psenka, "Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty," Discourse and Society (2003)
  • Sarah E. Ricks and Jane L. Istvan, "Effective Brief Writing Despite High Volume Practice: Ten Misconceptions that Result in Bad Briefs," University of Toledo Law Review (2007)
  • Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2003/2006)
  • Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (1997)
  • Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a Novel in Cartoons
  • (2007)
  • Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2008)
  • Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis, Revenge of the Shadow King (2006)
  • James Morrow, City of Truth (1990)
  • David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds., Year's Best SF 12 (2007)
  • Sheila Jasanoff, "Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, 'The Third Wave of Science Studies,'" Social Studies of Science (2003)
  • Joyce Carol Oates, "The King of Weird," The New York Review of Books (1996)
  • Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003)
  • Marc Bousquet, "Students Are Already Workers," How the University Works (2008)
  • Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief (2007)
  • Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves (2008)
  • Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995)
  • D'Arcy, Alexandra, "Like and Language Ideology: Disentangling Fact from Fiction," American Speech (2007)
  • John W. Creswell and Vicki L. Plano Clark, Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2007)
  • Virginia Clark, Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Beth Lee Simon, eds. Language: Introductory Readings (2008)
  • Patricia A. Alexander, Diane L. Schallert, and Victoria C. Hare, "Coming to Terms: How Researchers in Learning and Literacy Talk about Knowledge," Review of Educational Research (1991)
  • Chia-Huan Ho and Karen Swan, "Evaluating Online Conversation in an Asynchronous Learning Environment: An Application of Grice's Cooperative Principle," The Internet and Higher Education (2007)
  • Ron Scollon, "Food and Behaviour: A Burkean Motive Analysis of a Quasi-medical Text," Text & Talk (2006)
  • Randi Reppen and Nancy Ide, "The American National Corpus: Overall Goals and the First Release" Journal of English Linguistics (2004)
  • Ted Briscoe, "Review of Oostdijk's "Corpus Linguistics and the Automatic Analysis of English," Computational Linguistics (1993)
  • Ellen Barton, "Review of Duchan and Kovarsky's 'Diagnosis as Cultural Practice'" Language in Society (2008)
  • Arianne Reimerink, "The Use of Verbs in Research Articles: A Corpus Analysis," Terminology (2007)
  • Mandy Simons, "A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicatures," Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on H. Paul Grice (to appear)
  • Nancy Ide and Catherine Macleod, "The American National Corpus: A standardized resource for American English," Corpus Linguistics 2001 (2001)
  • Benoît Habert, Natalia Grabar, Pierre Jacquemart, and Pierre Zweigenbaum, "Building a text corpus for representing the variety of medical language," Corpus Linguistics 2001 (2001)
  • Sinfree Makoni, "Review: Critical Applied Linguistics," Applied Linguistics (2003)
  • Tania Ionin, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, and Salvador Bautista Maldonado, "Sources of linguistic knowledge in the second language acquisition of English articles," Lingua (2008)
  • Colleen Fitzgerald, "The Meter of Tohono O'odham Songs," International Journal of American Linguistics (1998)
  • Minna Vihla, "Medicor: A corpus of contemporary American medical texts," ICAME Journal (1998)
  • Patrick Ruch and Arnaud Gaudinat, "Comparing Corpora and Lexical Ambiguity," Proceedings of The Workshop on Comparing Corpora (2000)
  • Margaret Rogers, "Genre and Terminology," Analysing Professional Genres (1999)
  • Wenhhua Jin, Sounds of Korean Chinese: A Variationist Approach (2008)
  • Georgianna Noel, The Grammatical Function of Tone in Fur (2008)
  • Donna E. Alvermann, "Review of 'Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity' by James Collins and Richard K. Blot (2003)"Linguistics and Education (2004)
  • Edward Finegan, "Good News on the "Literacy Crisis," review of "On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock" American Speech (1985)
  • Robert Pattison, On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock (1982)
  • Jean-Francois Rouet, The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning (2006)
  • Maggie Tallerman, Understanding Syntax (2005)
  • Traci Patricia Weast, Questions in American Sign Language: A Quantitative Analysis of Rasied and Lowered Eyebrows (2008)
  • Carolynn Van Dyke, "Taking 'computer literacy' literally," Communications of the ACM (1987)
  • Claire Kramsch, Language and Culture (1998)
  • Carson T. Schütze, The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology (1996)
  • Polly Tse and Ken Hyland, "'So What is the Problem This Book Addresses?': Interactions in Academic Book Reviews" Text & Talk (2006)
  • Siemund, Rainer, "Review of 'Medical writing: Modality in focus' by Minna Vihla," ICAME Journal (2003)
  • Murphy, M. Lynne Murphy, "Review of 'Antonymy: A corpus-based perspective' by Steven Jones," Language (2003)
  • Pascaline Dury, "Building a Bilingual Diachronic Corpus of Ecology: The Long Road to Completion," ICAME Journal (2004)

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