Grammar: A Pocket Guide

Susan J Behrens is Professor of Communication at Marymount College, USA. She is the author of Language in the Real World: An Introduction to Linguistics (Routledge, 2010).

Part I: Language, Education and Cultural Change

1. Language Variation: Students and teachers reflect on accents and dialects, Susan J. Behrens and Rebecca L. Sperling

2. Speech Communities: Language as a mediator of messages and perceptions, Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth

3. Teaching Pronunciation: Using phonology in the ESL and foreign language classroom, Joanna Labov

Part II: Literature, Translation and Computers

4. Lexicography: What dictionaries reveal about language and lexicographers, Paul Fallon

5. Text Translation: Approaching otherness, Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero

6. Machine Translation: The challenge of ambiguity, Nan Decker

7. Transgressive Language: The 'n- word' and the 'f- word' in popular culture and all that Jazz, Carmen Gillespie

Part III: Language, Power, and Identity

8. Language, Power, and Sexual Assault: Women's voices on rape and social change, Judith A. Parker and Deborah Mahlstedt

9. Gender, Language and Power: Surname or sirname? Diana Boxer

10. The Possibility of Linguistics as a Forensic Science: The case of author identification, Carole E. Chaski

Part IV: Forms of Language and Communication

11. First Language Acquisition: Developing native linguistic competence, Janine Graziano-King and Helen Cairns

12. ASL: A visual language, Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Wood

13. Animal Communication: The "language" of honey bees, Wyatt Mangum

Part V: Language and Communication Science

14. Communication Disorders: A personal perspective, Ann Jablon

15. Analyzing narratives: An example of cross cultural research methods, Cecile Stein

16. Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: Contributions to healthy aging and dementia, Yael Neumann, Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou

17. Autism and Language: The two worlds underlying verbal communication, Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull