Dennis Baron
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Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Baron's Degrees
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Dennis Baron Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dennis Baron is a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the technologies of communication; language legislation and linguistic rights; language reform; gender issues in language; language standards and minority languages and dialects; English usage; and the history and present state of the English language.
Dennis Baron's Published Works
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Published Works
- Grammar and gender (1988) (163)
- The English-Only Question: An Official Language for Americans? (1992) (117)
- From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies (1999) (80)
- Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language (1982) (44)
- THE EPICENE PRONOUN: THE WORD THAT FAILED (1981) (37)
- The English-only question (1990) (33)
- Ebonics and the politics of English (2000) (22)
- A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (2009) (18)
- Grammar and good taste (1984) (16)
- Lexical Change in Present-Day English. (1975) (11)
- The College Board’s New Essay Reverses Decades of Progress Toward Literacy (2005) (10)
- Going native : the regeneration of Saxon English (1982) (7)
- Case grammar and diachronic English syntax (1974) (7)
- Teaching grammar doesn't lead to better writing (2003) (7)
- English in a Multicultural America. (1991) (6)
- Life after tenure (2003) (6)
- Going out of style? (1989) (5)
- Linguistic Insecurity: The Effect of Attitudes toward Language on Language Production. Flowers of Evil. (1976) (4)
- An Official Language (1994) (4)
- The Challenge of the English Only Movement (1992) (4)
- Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language. (1983) (3)
- Learning to be a Department Head (2003) (3)
- Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary (1990) (3)
- No Translation Needed: ‘Door Is Closed' (2004) (2)
- Ebonics is not a panacea for students at risk (1997) (2)
- Guide to Home Language Repair (1994) (2)
- America Doesn’t Know What the World Is Saying: Op-Ed essay (2001) (1)
- They Also Serve: Waiting for the PC Dictionary@@@Random House Webster's College Dictionary (1993) (1)
- Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the English Language (1986) (1)
- MLA's Nonsexist Stylebook@@@Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage (1992) (1)
- The Legal Status of English in Illinois: Case Study of a Multilingual State (1990) (1)
- Planning the American Language: Federal English (1981) (1)
- How to be a person, not a number, on the U.S. census (1998) (1)
- Language Legislation and Language Abuse: American Language Policy through the 1990s (2001) (1)
- Will Anyone Accept the Good News on Literacy (2002) (1)
- Corpus Evidence Illuminates the Meaning of Bear Arms (2019) (1)
- ROLE STRUCTURE AND THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE (1975) (1)
- No academic bill of rights (2006) (0)
- Look It Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls: How Courts Define the Words of the Law (2022) (0)
- No Students Left Behind: Why Reports on the Literacy Crisis from the Spellings Commission, the ACT, and the ETS Just Don’t Read America’s Literacy Right (2009) (0)
- The Tongue Who Would Be King (2004) (0)
- Federal English and the Constitution (1992) (0)
- Don't write off the pencil just yet. (2007) (0)
- The Languages of Nation: Attitudes and Norms ed. by Carol Percy and Mary Catherine Davidson (review) (2014) (0)
- Professors Behaving Badly (2003) (0)
- Federal English (1987) (1992) (0)
- Sharing Inside Information (2003) (0)
- Lingua Blanka: Official English? Let’s Be Done With the Poor Old Mother Tongue (1996) (0)
- The New Nativism: Language Policy and Linguistic Ideology in the United States (2005) (0)
- Don’t Make English Official – Ban It Instead (2005) (0)
- Current English: The Uses of Usage (1987) (0)
- The Uses of Usage. (1987) (0)
- TITLE Lexical Change in Present-Day English (2007) (0)
- McLanguage Meets the Dictionary (2003) (0)
- Not What I Signed Up For (2003) (0)
- It’s Just Grammar. Whom Really Cares? (2004) (0)
- "Heads Up”: A series of 17 essays on hiring, promotion, and departmental administration (2001) (0)
- The Salaries of Composition Specialists (1999) (0)
- Douglas A. Kibbee: Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America (2018) (0)
- When tenure fails (2003) (0)
- Can commas shoot down gun control (2007) (0)
- The first draft: A book for college writers (1995) (0)
- The English Language Amendment: Backgrounds and Prospects. (1988) (0)
- Douglas A. Kibbee: Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America (2018) (0)
- The ugly grammarian (1988) (0)
- Still More on Sex, Gender, and Language@@@Grammar and Gender (1988) (0)
- Reactions to Written Non-Standard English: Toward a Formal Description of the Written Code of Non-Standard English. (1974) (0)
- You Can't Always Say What You Want (2023) (0)
- Language, Culture and Society (1992) (0)
- GOOD ENGLISH AND THE GRAMMARIAN (1991) (0)
- "My Makyng Thow Wryte More Trewe': rhetorical chorus in medieval and digital spaces (2014) (0)
- Amazing Nuggets of Information@@@Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language (1986) (0)
- de Vere Is Shakespeare: Evidence from the Biography and Wordplay. (1997) (0)
- The President’s Reading Lesson (2004) (0)
- Against Interpretation: The Linguistic Structure of Television Drama (1974) (0)
- The New Technologies of the Word (2005) (0)
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