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Alternate Contents | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Language, Education, and Cultural Change | p. 9 |
Language Variation: Students and Teachers Reflect on Accents and Dialects | p. 11 |
Speech Communities: Language as a Mediator of Messages and Perceptions | p. 27 |
Teaching Pronunciation: Using Phonology in the ESL and Foreign Language Classroom | p. 43 |
Literature, Translation, and Computers | p. 65 |
Lexicography: What Dictionaries Reveal about Language and Dictionary Makers | p. 67 |
Text Translation: Approaching Otherness | p. 89 |
Machine Translation: The Challenge of Ambiguity | p. 107 |
The N-Word, the F-Word, and All that Jazz: Race, Sex, and Transgressive Language in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture | p. 123 |
Language, Power, and Identity | p. 137 |
Language, Power, and Sexual Assault: Women's Voices on Rape and Social Change | p. 139 |
Gender, Language, and Power: Surname or Surname? | p. 164 |
Linguistics as a Forensic Science: The Case of Author Identification | p. 180 |
Forms of Language and Communication | p. 205 |
First Language Acquisition: Developing Native Linguistic Competence | p. 207 |
ASL: A Visual Language | p. 226 |
Animal Communication: The ôLanguageö of Honey Bees | p. 225 |
Language and Communication Science | p. 275 |
Communication Disorders: A Personal Perspective | p. 277 |
Analyzing Narratives: An Example of Cross-Cultural Research Methods | p. 297 |
Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: Contributions to Understanding Healthy Aging and Dementia | p. 314 |
Language of Children with Autism: The Two Worlds Underlying Verbal Communication | p. 331 |
Glossary | p. 349 |
Index | p. 367 |
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