Edward Finegan

Biographic Data

ID736900
NAMEEdward Finegan
GIVEN NAMESEdward
FAMILY NAMEFinegan
SIGNATUREFINEGAN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Linguistic Analysis of Disputed Meanings: Trademarks

    Open AccessRonald R Butters, Edward FineganCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    Trademark linguistics is an established area of forensic linguistic practice and, to a lesser extent, theorization. Testimony has also been reported in Canada, Australia, Chile, South Africa, and Great Britain. In the United States, in the 1970s, the earliest known linguistic consulting about a trademark was undertaken by the dialectologist Raven I. McDavid, Jr. and the lexicographer and dialectologist Frederic Cassidy. They were joined at about …

  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al.BOOKGrammar of Spoken and Written…2021

    The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each grammatical feature, based on empirical analyses of grammatical patterns in a 40-million-word corpus of spoken a…

  • Remembering Ronald R. Butters: 11 February 1940 – 6 April 2021

    Edward FineganARTICLEInternational Journal of Speech…2021

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  • Discourses in the language of the law

    Edward FineganCHAPTERThe Routledge handbook of…2015

  • Expert linguists and the whole truth

    Edward FineganARTICLEInternational Journal of Speech…2010

    The adversarial nature of legal proceedings presents challenges for a linguist whose scholarly research and expert opinion typically have asymmetrical resources and constraints. This presentation focuses on a linguist’s ethical obligations as a forensic consultant, in initial contacts with attorneys, in drafting an expert report or declaration, and in deposition testimony and trial testimony. It asks in particular whether “the whole truth” remain…

  • Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Kathleen M Broussard, Stig Johansson et al.REVIEWTESOL Quarterly2000Cited by: 17

    Introduction Since its publication in 1985, the outstanding 1,800-page Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, has been the definitive description of the grammar of English and an in-. dispensable reference for any research in the analysis or generation of English that attempts serious coverage of the syntactic phenomena of the language. The new Longman Grammar of Spoke…

  • Practicing Prescriptivism Now and Then

    Edward FineganARTICLEAmerican Speech2000Cited by: 1

    Research Article| August 01 2000 PRACTICING PRESCRIPTIVISM NOW AND THEN EDWARD FINEGAN EDWARD FINEGAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 247–249. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation EDWARD FINEGAN; PRACTICING PRESCRIPTIVISM NOW AND THEN. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 247–249. doi: …

  • Series Foreword

    Edward FineganOTHERKids Talk1998

    Subject Sociology Sociolinguistics Child and Adolescent Social Work Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

  • Subjectivity and subjectivisation: An introduction

    Open AccessEdward FineganCHAPTERSubjectivity and Subjectivisation1995

    It is in the instance of discourse in which I designates the speaker that the speaker proclaims himself as the 'subject'. And so it is literally true that the basis of subjectivity is in the exercise of language ...

  • Sociolinguistic perspectives on register

    Douglas Biber, Edward FineganBOOKSociolinguistic perspectives on…1994Cited by: 17

  • Foundations of General Linguistics

    Joseph L Malone, Martin Atkinson et al.ARTICLELanguage1990

  • Variation in Linguists' Analyses of Author Identification

    Edward FineganARTICLEAmerican Speech1990Cited by: 1

    TN 1983 AN UNSIGNED, TYPEWRITTEN, LIBELOUS letter was sent to the board president of a corporation, accusing by name some of the corporation's managers of engaging in unlawful activities. A copy of the letter was received by local law enforcement officials. The libeled parties filed suit against someone they suspected of writing the letter. The legal action was complicated and involved cross-complaints of various sorts, so I have simplified the l…

  • Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect

    Douglas Biber, Edward FineganARTICLEThird Text1989

  • Good English and the Grammarian

    Edward Finegan, Sidney GreenbaumARTICLELanguage1989

    This is a highly practical book, provides detailed examples of the types of research that are needed for writing grammars, in particular the use of corpus analyses and elicitation experiments

  • Language and Social Networks

    Edward Finegan, Lesley MilroyARTICLELanguage1989

  • Drift and the Evolution of English Style: A History of Three Genres

    Douglas Biber, Edward FineganARTICLELanguage1989Cited by: 17

    The present study uses a multidimensional approach to trace the historical evolution of written genres of English. We briefly present a model of stylistic variation developed in our previous work, focusing on three empirically defined dimensions of linguistic variation that are associated with differences among ‘literate’ and ‘oral’ varieties: ‘Informational versus Involved Production’; ‘Elaborated versus Situation-Dependent Reference’; and ‘Abst…

  • Adverbial stance types in English

    Douglas Biber, Edward FineganARTICLEDiscourse Processes1988Cited by: 34References: 2

    The present paper identifies various speech styles of English as marked by stance adver‐bials. By stance we mean the overt expression of an author's or speaker's attitudes, feelings, judgments, or commitment concerning the message. Adverbials are one of the primary lexical markers of stance in English, and we limit ourselves in this paper to adverbial marking of stance (the attitudinal and style disjuncts presented in Quirk, Green‐baum, Leech, & …

  • Variation in Australian English: The Sociolects of Sydney

    Edward Finegan, Barbara M HorvathARTICLELanguage1987

  • Language: The Social Mirror

    Edward Finegan, Elaine ChaikaARTICLELanguage1985

  • Introduction to the Sociology of Language

    Edward Finegan, Fernando PeñalosaARTICLELanguage1985

  • "Good News on the "Literacy Crisis

    Edward Finegan, Robert PattisonARTICLEAmerican Speech1985

  • Linguistics, Language, and Law: A Topical Bibliography

    Edward Finegan, Judith N LeviARTICLELanguage1984

  • Computer Corpora in English Language Research

    Edward Finegan, Stig JohanssonARTICLELanguage1984

  • International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English

    Edward Finegan, Peter Trudgill et al.ARTICLELanguage1984

    1. Standard English in the world 2. English, Australasian, South African and Welsh English 3. The pronunciation of Northern American English 4. English and North American English: grammatical, orthographical and lexical differences 5. Scottish and Irish English 6. West Indian English and English-based creoles 7. Lesser-known Englishes 8. Second language varieties of English

  • Variation Omnibus

    Edward Finegan, David Sankoff et al.ARTICLELanguage1984