Book to Honor Richard W. Bailey

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
>
> Several weeks ago, Ron Butters notified this list of Richard W. Bailey's
> death. Richard was a friend to many on the list and an inspiring teacher
> and mentor to many of us in linguistic and English language studies. Anne
> Curzan and I have edited a volume, titled Contours of English and English
> Language Studies, to celebrate Richard's career and influence, recently
> published by the University of Michigan Press. We thought members of this
> list might be interested in it and wanted to let you know about it.
>
> The book has four sections representing four subjects of particular interest
> to Richard: American Dialects, the History of English Language, English
> Lexicography, and English Language Studies and Education. Dennis Preston,
> Walt Wolfram, Bill Kretzschmar, and Sonja Lanehart contribute to the section
> on American Dialects; Lynda Mugglestone, Anatoly Liberman, Edgar Schneider,
> and Colette Moore to that on the History of English; Joan Hall, Jesse
> Sheidlower, Michael Montgomery, and Marsha Dutton to that on English
> lexicography; and Geneva Smitherman and Minne Quartey-Annan, Amy Devitt,
> Deniis Baron, and Susanmarie Harrington to the section on English and Education.
> I don't want to take up a lot of space describing the book here, but you
> can see from the contributors that it's a significant work -- the contents
> well warrant the purchase price of $39.95. If you teach at a college or
> university, please recommend it to your library, for its own sake, but to
> honor Richard, as well.

To further whet your appetite, the Table of Contents can be found here:

http://www.dictionarysociety.com/2011/07/tribute-to-richard-w-bailey-contours-of-english-english-language-studies.html

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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