What I've Been Reading Lately*
2007

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  • Geoff Ryman, Air: Or, Have Not Have (2004)
  • Judith Clancy, Exploring Kyoto: On Foot In The Ancient Capital (1997)
  • Connie Willis, Inside Job (2005)
  • Orhan Pamuk, Snow (2002/2004)
  • EndNote 8: Bibliographies Made Easy (2004)
  • Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004)
  • Kevin Smokler (ed.), Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (2005)
  • Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog (1999)
  • Arnie Bernstein, (ed.), "The Movies Are": Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928 (2000)
  • Ramona Fernandez, Imagining Literacy: Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature (2001)
  • Barbara Wallraff, Your Own Words (2004)
  • Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell? (2004)
  • Robert Pease, The Associate Professor (1967)
  • Barbara Findlen (ed.), Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (1995)
  • James Lasdun, The Horned Man (2002)
  • Lou Ann Walker, A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family (1986)
  • Amy Thomson, Through Alien Eyes (1999)
  • Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother (2006)
  • William Deresiewicz, "Love on Campus," The American Scholar (2007)
  • Gregory Garretson, Dexter User Manual (2006)
  • Sarah Eppenbach, Alaska's Southeast: Touring the Inside Passage (2004)
  • Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (1995)
  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
  • A. Manette Ansay, Read This and Tell Me What It Says: Stories (1995)
  • John Hooper, The New Spaniards (1995)
  • Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1992)
  • Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (1919)
  • Virginia Woolf, Flush: A Biography (1933)
  • Anna Snaith, "Of Fanciers, Footnotes, and Fascism: Virginia Woolf's Flush," MFS Modern Fiction Studies (2002)
  • Andrea P. Zemgulys, "Night and Day Is Dead": Virginia Woolf in London "Literary and Historic," Twentieth Century Literature (2000)
  • Alvin Kernan, "Literacy Crises, Old and New: Information Technologies and Cultural Change," Language & Communication (1989)
  • Kobo Abé, The Woman in the Dunes (1964)
  • Robert Penn Warren, The Circus in the Attic : and Other Stories (1947)
  • Jonathan Rée, I See A Voice : Deafness, Language, and the Senses--A Philosophical History (1999)
  • Alan Cruse, Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (2004)
  • Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics (2002)
  • Paul Baker, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006)
  • Stephen C. Levinson, Presumptive Meanings (2000)
  • Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen, "Symptomatic Imperfections," Journal of Linguistics (2006)
  • Mark T. Miller, "West Coast Bajau: Syntactically Ergative or Symmetrical Voice?" (2006)
  • Kent Bach, "The Top 10 Misconceptions About Implicature," Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning (2006)
  • Greg Carlson, "'Mismatches' of Form and Interpretation," Semantics in Acquisition (2006)
  • Veneeta Dayal, "A Semantics for Pseudo Incorporation" (2003)
  • Greg Carlson and Rachel Sussman, "Seemingly Indefinite Definites," Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives (2005)
  • Song-Nim Kwon and Anne Zribi-Hertz, "Bare objects in Korean : (pseudo-)incorporation and (in)definiteness," Non-definites and plurality (2006)
  • Peter Trudgill, A Glossary of Sociolinguistics (2003)
  • Elissa Kaye Polley, Learner Perceptions of Small Group and Pair Work in the ESL Classroom: Implications for Second Language Acquisition (2007)
  • John Drezek, Adult ESOL Reading Comprehension and Text-to-Speech Software (2007)
  • Martin Wynne (ed.), Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice (2005)
  • Rima Rudd, Tayla Colton, and Robin Schacht, An Overview of Medical and Public Health Literature Addressing Literacy Issues : An Annotated Bibliography (2000)
  • Amanda Linerode, Direct Object Marking in Classical Hebrew (2007)
  • Mark Miller, A Grammar of West Coast Bajau (2007)
  • Tracy Rundstrom Williams, The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines (2007)
  • Miriam A. Locher, Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet Health Column (2006)
  • Heather Leilani Clark, Student's Noticing and Incorporation of Written Feedback: A Snapshot of ESOL Writing Instructors' Commentary of Adult ESOL Students' Essays (2007)
  • Catherine Zekri, "Emerging Conceptions and Practices of the Book in the Digital Era: Drawing on the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec Public Library," The International Journal of the Book (2006)
  • Vivian Cook, "Chomsky's Syntactic Structures fifty years on," International Journal of Applied Linguistics (2007)
  • Brian Street, "Academic Literacies: A Critical Perspective," Ways of Knowing Journal (2001)
  • Brian Street, "The Implications of the "New Literacy Studies" for Literacy Education," English in Education (1997)
  • James Paul Gee, "What is Literacy?" in Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other (1991)
  • Lynne Bowker and Shane Hawkins, "Variation in the Organization of Medical Terms: Exploring Some Motivations for Term Choice," Terminology (2006)
  • Gunther Kress, Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy (1997)
  • Laurence Anthony, "AntConc: Design and Development of a Freeware Corpus Analysis Toolkit for the Technical Writing Classroom," IEEE Proceedings (2005)
  • Traci Weast, Facial Convergence in American Sign Language: A Contrast in Emotion and Grammar (2007)
  • Sarah May, "Does Your Throat Hurt More in the Morning or Throughout the Day?" "Yes." : Intercultural Medical Discourse (2007)
  • Charles Owen, "Corpus-Based Grammar and the Heineken Effect: Lexico-gramatical Description for Language Learners," Applied Linguistics (1993)
  • David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (2003)
  • Roger Shuy, "Author's Reply to the Review of R. Shuy (2002) Linguistic Battles in Trademark Disputes, reviewed by Jennifer Westerhaus," International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (2004)
  • Gerlinde Mautner, "Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly," Language in Society (2007)

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