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Title The Legacy of language : a tribute to Charlton Laird / edited by Phillip C. Boardman
Published Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 187 pages) : portrait
Contents And gladly Teche: "stedfastnesse" in the Clerk's tale and in the pedagogy of Charlton Laird / Harry Brent -- The root of the matter: reflections on English etymological dictionaries / William H. Jacobsen. Jr. -- The lexicographer as social chronicler / David B. Guralnik -- Social dialects: educational implications of the study of Black English / Robert H. Bentley -- Something about language and social class / James Sledd -- Language, appearance, and reality: doublespeak in 1984 / William D. Lutz -- What makes English good? / John Algeo -- Misunderstanding standards of usage / Thomas L. Clark -- On the linguistic forms of prestige: snobs and slobs using English / Edward Finegan -- Usage and style: 1984 and 1066 / Walker Gibson
Notes Papers from the "Micracle of Language" Symposium, held at the University of Nevada, Reno, in Nov. 1984
"Selected publications of Charlton Laird": pages 171-173
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181)
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Subject Laird, Charlton, 1901-1984.
SUBJECT Laird, Charlton, 1901-1984 fast
Subject Language and languages.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Laird, Charlton, 1901-1984.
Boardman, Phillip C
"Miracle of Language" Symposium (1984 : University of Nevada, Reno)
ISBN 0874173973
9780874173970