22.1585, Qs: Seeking Undergraduate Book Recommendations

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Subject: 22.1585, Qs: Seeking Undergraduate Book Recommendations

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Date: 07-Apr-2011
From: Johanna Rubba [jrubba at calpoly.edu]
Subject: Seeking Undergraduate Book Recommendations

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:32:35
From: Johanna Rubba [jrubba at calpoly.edu]
Subject: Seeking Undergraduate Book Recommendations

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Hi LINGUIST List subscribers,

Apologies to anyone who gets this twice. 

I routinely have my undergraduates in certain classes read linguistics-
related books beyond the course text. My list of choices is getting 
seriously dated.

What I'm looking for are books that are intended for a general audience 
of *non-linguists*. We have no linguistics major at Cal Poly, and most of 
my students are taking a linguistics course because it is required. Most 
of my students are not as strong readers of linguistics books as 
students at R1 institutions. Pinker's "Language Instinct" would be too 
hard for most of my undergraduates, for instance. Here are a few of 
the titles I list, to give you an idea of level:

- Schane, Sanford. 2006. Language and the Law. 
- O'Grady, William. 2005. How Children Learn Language. 
- Lakoff, George and Mark Turner. 1989. More Than Cool Reason: A 
Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. 
- Wardhaugh, Ronald. 1999. Proper English: Myths and 
misunderstandings about language. 
- Tannen, Deborah. 1998. The argument culture: Stopping America's 
war of words.
- Wolfram, Walt and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1998. American English: 
Dialects and Variation.
- Bailey, Richard. l991. Images of English: A Cultural History of the 
Language.
- Hughes, Geoffrey. 1989.  Words in time: a social history of the 
English vocabulary. 

As you can see, the topic range is pretty wide open. I'm especially 
interested in a few *current* books on language and the Internet. 
Unless the book is timeless or a real classic, the date shouldn't be 
before about 2000 (though Internet books should be much more 
recent).

I'll happily post a summary to the list. Thank you!

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu
Tel.: 805.756.2184
Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596
Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374
URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

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