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xiii, 377 p.: ill. 25 cm. "Companion @ website: Professors and students will benefit from the interactive companion website that includes a student section featuring comments and hints on the chapter exercises within the book, a series of flash cards to test knowledge, details of further reading, and links to key web resources. Material for professors includes multi-choice and essay style questions based on each chapter that can be used or adapted to test their students." -- Back cover Section 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 -- Section II: Literature, translation, and computers: 4. Lexicography: what dictionaries reveal about language and dictionary makers / Paul D. Fallon -- 5. Text translation: approaching otherness / Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero -- 6. Machine translation: the challenge of ambiguity / Nan Decker -- 7. The n-word, the f-word, and and all that jazz: race, sex, and transgressive language in contemporary American literature and popular culture / Carmen Gillespie -- Section 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. Linguistics as a forensic science: the case of author identification / Carole E. Chaski -- Section IV: Forms of language and communication: 11. First language acquisition: developing native linguistic competence / Janine Graziano-King and Helen Smith Cairns -- 12. ASL: a visual language / Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Leigh Wood -- 13. Animal communication: the "language" of honey bees / Wyatt A. Mangum -- Section V: Language and communication science: 14. Communication disorders: a personal perspective / Ann D. Jablon -- 15. Analyzing narratives: an example of cross-cultural research methods / Cecile L. Stein -- 16. Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics: contributions to understanding healthy aging and dementia / Yael Neumann, Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou -- 17. Language of children with autism: the two worlds underlying verbal communication / Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull. Susan J. Behrens. Includes index and glossary English Applied linguistics 418 L25 978-0-415-77468-0 251212 20260803094050.0