Ronald R. Butters
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ronald R. Butters plays a role.
2008 Trademarks and other proprietary terms Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 231–247 | Article
Especially in North America, trademark litigation constitutes a prominent area of applied linguistics. As legal consultants, linguists bring their professional expertise to bear upon three issues: (1) likelihood of confusion of two marks; (2) categorization of the strength of a mark with respect to… read more
2002 Preface Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2, Long, Daniel and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. xv–xvi | Preface
1996 Historical and contemporary distribution of double modals in English Focus on the USA, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 265–288 | Article
1987 Review of Edwards (1986): Language in a Black Community Language Problems and Language Planning 11:2, pp. 220–224 | Review
1987 Review of Newbrook (1986): Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral English World-Wide 8:2, pp. 304–307 | Review
1985 Review of Cheshire (1982): Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study & Davis (1983): English Dialectology: An Introduction & Leith (1983): A Social History of English & Lodge (1984): Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English & Sutcliffe (1982): British Black English Language Problems and Language Planning 9:3, pp. 215–227 | Review
SUMMARY This essay offers a comparative review of five recent sociolinguistic studies. Although each of these texts focuses on some aspect of English—its variation within a particular community, its history, the study of non-standard variants—these works demonstrate the influence on the… read more