Experts List for Interviews

[Dennis Baron]

Count me in, Grant.


On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 08:07 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:

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> Folks, the requests for interviews with media related to the ADS Words
> of the Year vote are beginning to appear. Like last year, I am putting
> together an "experts" list that I can give out to media requesting
> interviews via the ADS web site. I send the list, they decide who to
> call.
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> If you are interested in being on that list, please send the following:
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> Name: Dennis Baron

> Organization/Employer: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

> Title/Occupation: Prof. of English and linguistics

> Pertinent professional affiliations: ADS, MLA, LSA, NCTE, CCCC
> Relevant books, articles, or research:

areas of research: language change and reform; language and public
policy; language legislation and linguistic rights; minority languages
and dialects; official English; language and gender; literacy;
technology issues

publications: Guide to Home Language Repair; Declining Grammar; The
English-Only Question; Grammar and Gender; Grammar and Good Taste

op ed essays on language issues in: NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago
Tribune; Atlanta Constitution; Chronicle of Higher Education; Education
Week


> Other areas of specialty you are capable of going on about:

the state of the language; education issues, particularly relating to
language

> Preferred Phone for Contact:

mobile: 217-840-0776
home: 217-351-6471
office: 217-244-0568
English department: 217-333-2390

> Preferred Email Address for Contact

debaron at uiuc.edu

> Anything else you feel might "hook" a journalist

frequent appearances on radio; frequently consulted by journalists

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> Thanks,
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> Grant
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Dennis Baron                                                office: 217-244-0568
Professor of English and Linguistics              mobile: 217-840-0776
Department of English                                           fax: 217-333-4321
University of Illinois                  http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~debaron
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
debaron at uiuc.edu