What I've Been Reading Lately*
2006

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  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
  • Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
  • Sheri S. Tepper, Grass (1989)
  • Christopher Wanjek, Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin 0 (2003)
  • David Pogue, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition (2005)
  • Graham Swift, Ever After (1992)
  • Robertson Davies, Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975 (2002)
  • Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City (2003)
  • Gregory Maguire, Wicked (1995)
  • Gloria Steinem, Moving Beyond Words (1994)
  • David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
  • Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves (2003)
  • Galway Kinnell, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-64 (1974)
  • Margaret Atwood, The Tent (2006)
  • Frank Norris, Blix (1899)
  • John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise (2006)
  • Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans (1997)
  • Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
  • Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)
  • Jay Neugeboren, Imagining Robert (1997)
  • Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
  • Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do (2004)
  • Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books (1996)
  • Richard Selzer, The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays (2001)
  • Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang, eds. Scoot Over, Skinny (2005)
  • Wendelin Van Draanen, Shredderman: Secret Identity (2004)
  • Wendelin Van Draanen, Shredderman: Attack of the Tagger (2004)
  • Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997)
  • Kage Baker, The Life of the World to Come (2004)
  • Karin Aijmer, English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a Corpus (2002)
  • Donka F. Farkas, "Specificity Distinctions," Journal of Semantics (2002)
  • Andrew Radford, Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach (1997)
  • Barbara Loos, Getting a Grant (2005)
  • Verena Haser, "Review of 'Modularity in Language: Constructional and Categorial Mismatch' by Etsuyo Yuasa," Linguist list (2005)
  • Donka Farkas, "Varieties of Indefinites," SALT 2002 Proceedings (2002)
  • Eviatar Zerubavel, The Clockwork Muse (1999)
  • David Sternberg, How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation (1981)
  • Joan Bolker, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day (1998)
  • John Swales, "Citation Analysis and Discourse Analysis," Applied Linguistics (1986)
  • 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)
  • Mark Boardman, The Language of Websites (2005)
  • Ahmad Mahmoud Saidat, The Syntax of Quranic Classical Arabic: A Principles and Parameters Approach (2006)
  • Colin Yallop, "Words and Meaning," Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics (2004)
  • Ora Matushansky, "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms: Are Bare Nouns Created Equal?" (2005)
  • Howard S. Becker, Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It (1998)
  • Robert Boice, Professors as Writers (1990)
  • William P. Banks and Suzanne C. Thompson, "The Mental Image of the Human Body: Implications of Physiological Mental Models of our Understanding of Health and Illness," Metaphor: Implications and Applications (1996)
  • Monica Macaulay, Surviving Linguistics (2006)
  • George Lakoff and Mark Turner, More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (1989)
  • Laura Rupp and Hanne Page-Verhoeff, "Pragmatic and Historical Aspects of Definite Article Reduction in Northern English Dialects," English World-Wide (2005)
  • Eric Mathieu, "Bare Nouns and Morpho-syntactic Reflexes of Semantic Incorporation: Some New Facts," Proceedings of NELS 35 (2006)
  • Timothy Baldwin, John Beaver, Leonoor van der Beek, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger and Ivan A. Sag, "In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs," Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions (2006)
  • Kaja Borthen, Norwegian Bare Singulars (2003)
  • Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research (2003)
  • David Blacker and Jane McKie, "Information and Communicative Technology," The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education (2003)
  • Michael Silverstein, "The Indeterminacy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough?" The Contextualization of Language (1992)
  • Pamela S. Arlund, An Acoustic, Historical, And Developmental Analysis Of Sarikol Tajik Diphthongs (2006)
  • Stanton Wortham, "Interactional Positioning and Narrative Self-Construction" Narrative Inquiry (2000)
  • Benoît Habert, Natalia Grabar, Pierre Jacquemart, and Pierre Zweigenbaum, "Building a text corpus for representing the variety of medical language," Corpus Linguistics 2001 (2001)
  • George Dunbar, "Towards a Cognitive Analysis of Polysemy, Ambiguity, and Vagueness," Cognitive Linguistics (2001)
  • Danielle Elaine Plauché, Legitimate Strategies in Writing: Exploring English Language Learner Perspectives on Attribution (2006)
  • Alan Cruse, Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (2004)
  • Kenneth Zuercher, "Personal Names in Azerbaijan: A Quantitative Analysis," (2006)
  • Gregory Ward and Laurence R. Horn, "Phatic Communication and Relevance Theory: A Reply to Žegarac & Clark," Journal of Linguistics (1999)
  • Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics (2002)

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Last updated: December 28, 2006

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