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What I've Been Reading Lately*
2005

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  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
  • Donald Justice, Collected Poems (2004)
  • Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics (2003)
  • Michael Chabon, The Final Solution (2004)
  • Vince Staten, Do Pharmacists Sell Farms? A Trip Inside the Corner Drugstore (1998)
  • Let's Go: Germany (2005)
  • Charles Neider, "Introduction: The Complete Travel Books of Mark Twain" (1966)
  • Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880)
  • Dave Eggers, et al., Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans (2004)
  • A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (1995)
  • Thomas S. Khun, "The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research" (1959)
  • Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, Citizen Girl (2004)
  • David Mitchell, Number 9 Dream (2001)
  • Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt, Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (1999)
  • H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay (1908)
  • Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004)
  • Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1911)
  • Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove, Marvel 1602 (2004)
  • Ted Kooser, Winter Morning Walks (2000)
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
  • Jon Fasman, The Geographer's Library (2005)
  • Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
  • C. P. Snow, The Masters (1951)
  • José Saramago, Blindness (1997/1995)
  • Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
  • D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003)
  • Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird (2003)
  • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004)
  • Don Foster, Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous (2000)
  • M. F. K. Fischer, Serve It Forth (1937)
  • David B., Epileptic (2005)
  • Joyce Davidson, and Mick Smith, "Bio-phobias/ techno-philias: Virtual Reality Exposure as Treatement for Phobias of 'Nature'," Health and the Media (2004)
  • Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey (2002)
  • Cynthia Ozick, ed. The Best American Essays, 1998 (1998)
  • María Amparo Escandón, González & Daughter Trucking Co. (2005)
  • Sola (Olive San Louie Anderson) An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College (1878)
  • Jonathan Strong, The Old World (1997)
  • Sebastian Hoffmann, "Using the OED Quotations Database as a Corpus: A Linguistic Appraisal," ICAME Journal (2004)
  • David Beaver, "Presupposition Accommodation: A Plea for Common Sense," Logic, Language and Computation, vol. 2 (1999)
  • Kurt Wächtler, "Beyond the Rules of Grammar: The Case of (the) Articles in English," Essays on the English Language and Applied Linguistics (1988)
  • Gabriele Kasper, "Can Pragmatic Competence be Taught?" NFLRC NetWork #6, (1997)
  • Mandy Simons, "On the Conversational Basis of Some Presuppositions," Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 11 (2001).
  • Kate Forde, "Celluloid Dreams: The Marketing of Cutex in America, 1916-1935," Journal of Design History (2002)
  • Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Ingo Plag, "Categorywise, Some Compound-Type Morphemes Seem to Be Rather Suffix-Like: On the Status of -ful, -type, and -wise in Present Day English," Folia Linguistica (2000)
  • Anna M. Thornton, "On -ex and -tex," Extragrammatical and Marginal Morphology (2000)
  • Heidi Harley, "Why Is It the CIA but Not *the NASA?" American Speech (2004)
  • Daniel R. Davis and Judith Eeles, "Trade Mark Law: Linguistic Issues," Language and Communication (1996)
  • Mark Aronoff, "Automobile Semantics," Linguistic Inquiry (1981)
  • Olga Panic, "Brand names: A linguistic phenomenon," SKY Journal of Linguistics (2003)
  • Mark Sebba, "The -Ex Ending in Product Names," American Speech (1986)
  • Kelly Walter, The Eritrean English Curriculum: Grades 2-6, Assessing Academic Readiness (2005)
  • Sidney I. Landau, "Ch. 6: The Corpus in Lexicography," Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (2001)
  • Geoff Barnbrook, Pernilla Danielsson, and Michaela Mahlberg, Meaningful Texts: The Extractions of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora (2005)
  • Marian Carter Olson, Talking Attacks: An Examination of Presidential Radio Addresses (2005)
  • Jef Verschueren, Understanding Pragmatics (1999)
  • Ingrid Piller, "Brand Name Formation," Nomina Africana (2001)
  • Giuseppe Longobardi, "Determinerless Nouns: A Parametric Mapping Theory," From NP To DP (2003)
  • Frank Bailey, Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs about Their Teachers' Qualifications (2005)
  • Stefan Dolinger, "What the Capitalization of nouns in Early Canadian English may tell us about 'colonial lag' theory: methods and problems," Vienna English Working Papers (2003)
  • Jean Aitchison, Language Change: Progress or Decay? (1981)
  • Q. Zeng, S. Kogan, N. Ash, R.A. Greenes, and A.A. Boxwala. "Characteristics of Consumer Terminology for Health Information Retrieval," Methods of Information in Medicine (2002)
  • Arthur Vidich, "Participant Observation and the Collection and Interpretation of Data," American Journal of Sociology (1955)
  • Lawrence Schourup, "Why as a Prefatory Interjection," Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2002)
  • Flis Henwood, Sally Wyatt, Angie Hart, and Julie Smith,"'Ignorance is Bliss Sometimes': Constraints on the Emergence of the 'Informed Patient' in the Changing Landscapes of Health Information," Health and the Media (2004)
  • Gyde Hansen (ed.) Nominal Determination (1998)
  • George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980)
  • Donka F. Farkas and Henriette de Swart, The Semantics of Incorporation (2003)


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Last updated: Dec. 28, 2005

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