Thomas E Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 733188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas E Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Citizenship Education about War and Peace: A Study of the History of the Vietnam War through Oral History
The Life and Death of Carnie
This essay examines the history and ongoing livelihood of Carnie, a subcultural argot once popular among workers in circuses, carnivals,sideshows, athletic shows, and, more recently, professional wrestling. Through the use of published sources as well as personal interviews, we trace the origins of the argot to the late nineteenth century, when it may have been used exclusively as a secret language to conceal the illicit activities of some carniv…
Language variation and change in the urban midwest: The case of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, though located in the central Midlands, is a complex city dialectally. Nevertheless, over the past 50 years most dialectologists and sociolinguists have identified the area as primarily a Northern or Northern/North Midland speech island in a sea of Southern and especially South Midland forms. This article is concerned with whether the city's strong affinity for the Northern/North Midland dialect continues into the 21st centur…
The Overlooked and Understudied Onomastic Hyphen
Onomasts have generally notgiven the link hyphen the critical attention it deserves. This essay considers such hyphens as they have occurred and continue to appear in toponyms, personal names, and other kinds of names and naming processes throughout the world;, particularly in English. It also suggests some potentially rich avenues of investigation into various historical, linguistic, sociocultural, psychopolitical, geographical, and legal aspect…
A Further Note on the “Title + First Name” Form of Address
In the March, 2002 issue of this journal I published an essay in which I stated that the “title + first name” form of address (Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura) had only recently been created. But that is clearly untrue: the “title + first name” formula is at least as old as the mid-nineteenth century in American English (and very likely dates to colonial times), and is well-attested much earlier in British English. In fact, worldwide the phenomenon probably …
A New Look at Address in American English: The Rules Have Changed
This essay replicates the landmark research done by Roger Brown and Marguerite Ford (1961) on forms of address in dyadic encounters in American English-more specifically, on the choice speakers make between the use of an addressee's first name and his or her title plus last name. The results show that many of the rules governing address have changed greatly over the past two generations: the use of first names is more common now in encounters inv…
At the Intersection of Regional and Social Dialects: The Case Oflike+ Past Participle in American English
Research Article| February 01 2002 AT THE INTERSECTION OF REGIONAL AND SOCIAL DIALECTS: THE CASE OF LIKE + PAST PARTICIPLE IN AMERICAN ENGLISH THOMAS E. MURRAY; THOMAS E. MURRAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BETH LEE SIMON BETH LEE SIMON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (1): 32–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
Onomastics and the Academy: Past, Present, and Future
References Bryant, Margaret M. 1976. “After 25 Years of Onomastic Study.” Names 24: 30–55. Lieberson, Stanley, Susan Dumais, and Shy on Baumann. 2000. “The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries.” American Journal of Sociology 105: 1249–87. Lieberson, Stanley, and Kelly S. Mikelson. 1995. “Distinctive African American Names: An Experimental, Historical, and Linguistic Analysis of Innovation. ” American Soc…
Richly Qualitative and Rigorously Quantitative
Research Article| November 01 2000 RICHLY QUALITATIVE AND RIGOROUSLY QUANTITATIVE BETH LEE SIMON; BETH LEE SIMON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google THOMAS E. MURRAY THOMAS E. MURRAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 401–405. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-401 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation BETH …
The Law and Newborns' Personal Names in the United States
A number of legal questions related to the naming of children whose parents are citizens of the United States are addressed: Must these children be given personal names? If so, do restrictions exist on what those names may be, or how soon after birth they must be given? Can a newborn's personal name, once recorded on a birth certificate, be legally changed without the intervention of a court? And, if such intervention is necessary, is it pro form…
The Other Nicknames of American Greek-Letter Organizations
Greek sororities and fraternities in the United States have not one nickname, but two—the second being a sexually-embellished version of the first. These latter, “dirty”, nicknames have been created within a narrowlydefined set of sociocultural and linguistic rules, and, beyond revealing the usual adolescent preoccupation with sex, serve at least one important psycho-social function in the Greek socialization process, to bind !ogether members of …
Attitudes Toward Married Women's Surnames: Evidence from the American Midwest
Married women who retain their given surnames are perceived very differently from married women who take their husbands' surnames. Moreover, the relative strengths of these perceptions vary according to the characteristics of the people who hold them. The perceptions and the ways in which they vary are examined in the light of corresponding culturally- and demographically-defined notions of societal norms
Need + Past Participle in American English
Les As. proposent un certain nombre de donnees sociolinguistiques et dialectologiques concernant l'emploi du participe passe au lieu du participe present apres le verbe need en anglais americain (ex: Does my hair need combed ?). Ils font ainsi le point sur la repartition geographique des attestations de la construction need + part. passe et sur les locuteurs de l'anglais americain standard qui l'utilisent, ou du moins qui l'acceptent comme standa…
Legal and Ethical Issues in Surreptitious Recording
From Trade Name to Generic: The Case of Coke
As a shortened form of Coca-Cola, Coke has been used since at least 1909 to describe a particula'r carbonated beverage; it has been a registered trade name of The Coca-Cola Company since 1945∼At about the same time that Coke became the legal property of The Coca-Cola Company, it also began to be used by a few people as a generic term to describe other kinds, of carbonated soft drinks. The responses of nearly 9,000 U.S. informants chart the geogra…
On the Need to Legitimize Onomastics in Academia
67 68 Names 42.1 (March 1994) anecdote -in other words, through stories gleaned from friends, acquaintances, and electronic bulletin boards. 3 I have rejected all second-and thirdhand retellings as possible distorted hearsay; the numbers reported below represent only primary accounts of the facts being related (accounts which, not insignificantly, can be corroborated with outside written evidence in slightly more than half the cases cited). Final…
Risk, Deception, Confidentiality, and Informed Consent
On the Legality and Ethics of Surreptitious Recording
Research Article| December 01 1992 On the Legality and Ethics of Surreptitious Recording Thomas E. Murray; Thomas E. Murray Department of English Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carmin Ross Murray Carmin Ross Murray Morrison, Frost & Olsen Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1992) 76 (1): 15–75. https://doi.org/…
The Nicknames of American Greek-Letter Organizations
Most sororities and fraternities in the United States have at least one nickname, the formation of which always follows the regular processes of English neology for shortened forms, and, additionally, always adheres to the basic parameters of non-duplication (of other similar organizations' nicknames), brevity, and uniqueness. Besides serving as a ready means of identification, these nicknames serve important psycho-social functions: fraternity a…
Social Structure and Phonological Variation on a Midwestern College Campus
FOUR DECADES OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH have illustrated how phonological variation and social structure can be intimately related. In general, such relationships are either correlative or functional-that is, the variation appears either because of one or more demographic characteristics of the speaker (such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and the like) or because it serves some situation-based communicative purpose. This essay discusses…
A New Look at the Folk Speech of American Tramps
American English Loanwords in Samoan
Ouch
The Language of Smokejumping-Again
How College Slang Is like the Forty-Eight-Hour Dork Effect
Need + Past Participle in American English
Les As. proposent un certain nombre de donnees sociolinguistiques et dialectologiques concernant l'emploi du participe passe au lieu du participe present apres le verbe need en anglais americain (ex: Does my hair need combed ?). Ils font ainsi le point sur la repartition geographique des attestations de la construction need + part. passe et sur les locuteurs de l'anglais americain standard qui l'utilisent, ou du moins qui l'acceptent comme standa…
Attitudes Toward Married Women's Surnames: Evidence from the American Midwest
Married women who retain their given surnames are perceived very differently from married women who take their husbands' surnames. Moreover, the relative strengths of these perceptions vary according to the characteristics of the people who hold them. The perceptions and the ways in which they vary are examined in the light of corresponding culturally- and demographically-defined notions of societal norms
At the Intersection of Regional and Social Dialects: The Case Oflike+ Past Participle in American English
Research Article| February 01 2002 AT THE INTERSECTION OF REGIONAL AND SOCIAL DIALECTS: THE CASE OF LIKE + PAST PARTICIPLE IN AMERICAN ENGLISH THOMAS E. MURRAY; THOMAS E. MURRAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BETH LEE SIMON BETH LEE SIMON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (1): 32–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
A New Look at Address in American English: The Rules Have Changed
This essay replicates the landmark research done by Roger Brown and Marguerite Ford (1961) on forms of address in dyadic encounters in American English-more specifically, on the choice speakers make between the use of an addressee's first name and his or her title plus last name. The results show that many of the rules governing address have changed greatly over the past two generations: the use of first names is more common now in encounters inv…
Social Structure and Phonological Variation on a Midwestern College Campus
FOUR DECADES OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH have illustrated how phonological variation and social structure can be intimately related. In general, such relationships are either correlative or functional-that is, the variation appears either because of one or more demographic characteristics of the speaker (such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and the like) or because it serves some situation-based communicative purpose. This essay discusses…
The Language of Singles Bars
A LTHOUGH HUMAN BEINGS have been going to barrooms for generations in search of romantic encounters of various kinds, SINGLES BAR as we know it today is usually traced to early 1960s. As name implies, singles bars-also known sometimes as CRUISE BARS or DATING BARS-are places to which heterosexual singles (or people who wish to appear single) go to meet other unattached persons, perhaps with intention of finding mate, but usually with motives more…
Citizenship Education about War and Peace: A Study of the History of the Vietnam War through Oral History
The Life and Death of Carnie
This essay examines the history and ongoing livelihood of Carnie, a subcultural argot once popular among workers in circuses, carnivals,sideshows, athletic shows, and, more recently, professional wrestling. Through the use of published sources as well as personal interviews, we trace the origins of the argot to the late nineteenth century, when it may have been used exclusively as a secret language to conceal the illicit activities of some carniv…
The Law and Newborns' Personal Names in the United States
A number of legal questions related to the naming of children whose parents are citizens of the United States are addressed: Must these children be given personal names? If so, do restrictions exist on what those names may be, or how soon after birth they must be given? Can a newborn's personal name, once recorded on a birth certificate, be legally changed without the intervention of a court? And, if such intervention is necessary, is it pro form…
The Language of Bodybuilding
It is this last aspect of bodybuilding-the vocabulary-with which I will be primarily concerned in this article, but first I would like to give a brief history of the sport (drawing primarily upon Gaines and Butler 1974, pp. 109-34). In the most literal sense, bodybuilding is one of the oldest sports known to man: it probably began as a mere preoccupation of those who simply wanted to make themselves stronger, but it evolved into a somewhat more s…
Language variation and change in the urban midwest: The case of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, though located in the central Midlands, is a complex city dialectally. Nevertheless, over the past 50 years most dialectologists and sociolinguists have identified the area as primarily a Northern or Northern/North Midland speech island in a sea of Southern and especially South Midland forms. This article is concerned with whether the city's strong affinity for the Northern/North Midland dialect continues into the 21st centur…
Richly Qualitative and Rigorously Quantitative
Research Article| November 01 2000 RICHLY QUALITATIVE AND RIGOROUSLY QUANTITATIVE BETH LEE SIMON; BETH LEE SIMON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google THOMAS E. MURRAY THOMAS E. MURRAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 401–405. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-401 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation BETH …
From Trade Name to Generic: The Case of Coke
As a shortened form of Coca-Cola, Coke has been used since at least 1909 to describe a particula'r carbonated beverage; it has been a registered trade name of The Coca-Cola Company since 1945∼At about the same time that Coke became the legal property of The Coca-Cola Company, it also began to be used by a few people as a generic term to describe other kinds, of carbonated soft drinks. The responses of nearly 9,000 U.S. informants chart the geogra…
On the Need to Legitimize Onomastics in Academia
67 68 Names 42.1 (March 1994) anecdote -in other words, through stories gleaned from friends, acquaintances, and electronic bulletin boards. 3 I have rejected all second-and thirdhand retellings as possible distorted hearsay; the numbers reported below represent only primary accounts of the facts being related (accounts which, not insignificantly, can be corroborated with outside written evidence in slightly more than half the cases cited). Final…
How College Slang Is like the Forty-Eight-Hour Dork Effect
YOU #^%?*&@ Hoosier!”: Derogatory Names and the Derogatory Name in St. Louis, Missouri
References Baker, Ronald L., and Marvin Carmony. 1975. Indiana Place Names. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Crinklaw, Don. 1976. Ladue Lockjaw, or How I Learned to Love the St. Louis Language. St. Louisan (Oct.): 59–61. Murray, Thomas E. The Language of St. Louis, Missouri: Variation in the Gateway City. Peter Lang, forthcoming
Ethics & Social Science Research
Poppy Show
The Language of Bodybuilding
It is this last aspect of bodybuilding-the vocabulary-with which I will be primarily concerned in this article, but first I would like to give a brief history of the sport (drawing primarily upon Gaines and Butler 1974, pp. 109-34). In the most literal sense, bodybuilding is one of the oldest sports known to man: it probably began as a mere preoccupation of those who simply wanted to make themselves stronger, but it evolved into a somewhat more s…
Of Dictionaries and Dictionary Makers
The Language of Singles Bars
A LTHOUGH HUMAN BEINGS have been going to barrooms for generations in search of romantic encounters of various kinds, SINGLES BAR as we know it today is usually traced to early 1960s. As name implies, singles bars-also known sometimes as CRUISE BARS or DATING BARS-are places to which heterosexual singles (or people who wish to appear single) go to meet other unattached persons, perhaps with intention of finding mate, but usually with motives more…
The Words of Scrabble
N 1931, DURING THE MIDST of the Great Depression, an unemployed architect named Alfred M. Butts created a game he called Lexico (see Benjamin 1981, from which this brief history has been compiled). It was a simple game, requiring only luck, a good vocabulary, and a certain amount of tactical skill as its players arranged small wooden tiles in crosswordpuzzle fashion to make words. Initially, Butts intended Lexico to be a diversion for his family …
Lapine Lingo in American English: Silflay
Folk Etymology in the Streets of St. Louis
References Baker, Ronald L., and Marvin Carmony. 1975. Indiana Place Names. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. Bolinger, Dwight. 1975. Aspects of Language, 2nd ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Bond, Zinny S., and Sara Games, n.d. Implications of Misperceptions in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Fries, Charles C., and Kenneth L. Pike. 1949. Coexistent Phonemic Systems. Languag…
Scrumdiddleyishuss and Scrumpdillyishus
Metariddling
The Pragmatic Semantics of Drugs
The Language of Naval Fighter Pilots
YOU #^%?*&@ Hoosier!”: Derogatory Names and the Derogatory Name in St. Louis, Missouri
References Baker, Ronald L., and Marvin Carmony. 1975. Indiana Place Names. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Crinklaw, Don. 1976. Ladue Lockjaw, or How I Learned to Love the St. Louis Language. St. Louisan (Oct.): 59–61. Murray, Thomas E. The Language of St. Louis, Missouri: Variation in the Gateway City. Peter Lang, forthcoming
American English Loanwords in Samoan
Ouch
The Language of Smokejumping-Again
How College Slang Is like the Forty-Eight-Hour Dork Effect
On the Legality and Ethics of Surreptitious Recording
Research Article| December 01 1992 On the Legality and Ethics of Surreptitious Recording Thomas E. Murray; Thomas E. Murray Department of English Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carmin Ross Murray Carmin Ross Murray Morrison, Frost & Olsen Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1992) 76 (1): 15–75. https://doi.org/…
The Nicknames of American Greek-Letter Organizations
Most sororities and fraternities in the United States have at least one nickname, the formation of which always follows the regular processes of English neology for shortened forms, and, additionally, always adheres to the basic parameters of non-duplication (of other similar organizations' nicknames), brevity, and uniqueness. Besides serving as a ready means of identification, these nicknames serve important psycho-social functions: fraternity a…
Social Structure and Phonological Variation on a Midwestern College Campus
FOUR DECADES OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH have illustrated how phonological variation and social structure can be intimately related. In general, such relationships are either correlative or functional-that is, the variation appears either because of one or more demographic characteristics of the speaker (such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and the like) or because it serves some situation-based communicative purpose. This essay discusses…
A New Look at the Folk Speech of American Tramps
Risk, Deception, Confidentiality, and Informed Consent
On the Need to Legitimize Onomastics in Academia
67 68 Names 42.1 (March 1994) anecdote -in other words, through stories gleaned from friends, acquaintances, and electronic bulletin boards. 3 I have rejected all second-and thirdhand retellings as possible distorted hearsay; the numbers reported below represent only primary accounts of the facts being related (accounts which, not insignificantly, can be corroborated with outside written evidence in slightly more than half the cases cited). Final…
Legal and Ethical Issues in Surreptitious Recording
From Trade Name to Generic: The Case of Coke
As a shortened form of Coca-Cola, Coke has been used since at least 1909 to describe a particula'r carbonated beverage; it has been a registered trade name of The Coca-Cola Company since 1945∼At about the same time that Coke became the legal property of The Coca-Cola Company, it also began to be used by a few people as a generic term to describe other kinds, of carbonated soft drinks. The responses of nearly 9,000 U.S. informants chart the geogra…
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