What I've Been Reading Lately*
2009

Avocational

Vocational

  • Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006)
  • Lisa See, Snowflower and the Secret Fan (2005)
  • Peter D. Kramer, Listening to Prozac (1993)
  • Jay Stephens, Oddville (2002)
  • Catherine McCormick, British-American/American-British: Hippocrene Dictionary and Phrasebook (2001)
  • Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
  • David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year's Best SF 9 (2003)
  • Martin Edwards, All the Lonely People (1991)
  • Barry Deutsch, How Mirka Got Her Sword (2009)
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
  • Martha Cooley, The Archivist (1998)
  • Martin Edwards, Suspicious Minds (1992)
  • William Gibson, Spook Country (2007)
  • José Saramago, The Double (2002/2004)
  • Richard Jones, Frommer's Memorable Walks in London
  • Bill Bryson, The Complete Notes [Notes from a Small Island; Notes from a Big Country] (2000)
  • Matthew Derby, Super Flat Times: Stories (2003)
  • Hillary Mantel, Beyond Black (2005)

Meta-Vocational

  • Thomas A. Angelo, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (1993)
  • David Crystal, txtng: the gr8 db8 (2008)
  • Kevin Porter, "Literature Reviews Re-Viewed: Toward a Consequentialist Account of Surveys, Surveyors, and the Surveyed," JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory (2003)
  • Naomi Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008)
  • Steve Soho and Monica Jones, Everything Twitter (2009)
  • Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research (1999)
  • Carol Taylor Torsello, Katherine Ackerley, and Erik Castello, (eds.) Corpora for University Language Teachers (2008)
  • Judy Lombardi, "To Portfolio or not to Portfolio: Helpful or Hyped?" College Teaching (2008)
  • Mohammad Reza Falahati Qadimi Fumani and C. S. Ramachandr, "The concept of stopwords in Persian Chemistry articles: A discussion in Automatic Indexing," Glossa (2008)
  • Louise Cummings, Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (2005)
  • Sebastian Löbner, Understanding Semantics (2002)
  • Jennifer Bloomquist, "Developmental Trends in Semantic Acquisition: Evidence from Over-extensions in Child Language,"First Language (2007)
  • Jennifer Bloomquist, "Dialect differences in Central Pennsylvania: a socio-historical account of regional dialect use and adaptation by African American speakers in the Lower Susquehanna Valley," American Speech
  • Paul Schaefer, Narrative Storyline Marking in Safaliba: Determining the Meaning and Discourse Function of a Typologically-Suspect Pronoun Set (2009)
  • Cliff Goddard, "Speech-Act Verbs," Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (1998)
  • Presley McFadden, Are We Speaking the Same Language?: The Use of the Mother Tongue by Native English Speaking Teachers in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms (2009)
  • Jenine Turner and Eugene Charniak, "Language Modeling for Determiner Selection," Proceedings of NAACL HLT (2007)
  • Fei-Yu Chuang, "Article Misuse: A Neglected Problem in Chinese EAP Student Writing," Proceedings of the 2nd International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research (2005)
  • Richard Vallée, "Conventional Implicature Revisited," Journal of Pragmatics (2008)
  • Tanya Kupisch and Christian Koop, "The Definite Article in Non-Specific Object NPs," Nominal Determination: Typology, Context Constraints, and Historical Emergence (2007)
  • Szu-Yen Neal Liang, The Acquisition of Chinese Classifier Systems by L2 Adult Learners (2009)
  • Catharine Moore Welch, The Emergence of Pragmatic Softeners in Spanish by Instructed Learners of Spanish in the Study Abroad and Immersion Contexts (2009)
  • Christine A. Anderson, Gail Keenan, Josette Jones, "Using Bibliometrics to Support Your Selection of a Nursing Terminology Set," CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing (2009)
  • Sofía N. Galicia-Haro and Alexander Gelbukh, "Unsupervised Learning of P NP P Word Combinations," Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (2005)
  • Peter Master, "The English Article System: Acquisition, Function, and Pedagogy," System (1997)
  • Patricia Byrd, "Nouns without Articles: Focusing Instructions for ESL/EFL Learners within the Context of Authentic Discourse," The Power of Context in Language Teaching and Learning (2005)
  • Peter Master, "Teaching the English Articles as a Binary System," TESOL Quarterly (1990)
  • Tania Ionin, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, and Salvador Bautista Maldonado, "Sources of linguistic knowledge in the second language acquisition of English articles," Lingua (2008)
  • Leszek Berezowski, The Myth of the Zero Article (2009)
  • Kenneth Zuercher, Code-switching and Code-mixing in Azerbaijan: Form, Function, and Identity (2009)
  • Joan Bybee, ed. Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language (2007)
  • Shigeru Miyagawa and Koji Arikawa, "Locality in Syntax and Floating Numeral Quantifiers" Linguistic Inquiry (2007)

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