Barbara M Birch
Biographic Data
| ID | 749532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara M Birch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara M |
| FAMILY NAME | Birch |
| SIGNATURE | BIRCH B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Proselytizing (whether religious or political) and the spread of languages of wider communication have been linked together since the beginning of recorded history (Ostler, 2008). However, it seems
Ebonics
The thesis of this paper is that no substantive and impartial debate about the pedagogical value of using Ebonics in the classroom could be held in the United States media because America's prescriptive attitude towards Ebonics does not allow fair and objective consideration of the issue. In presenting this theme I will discuss language ideologies in general and prescription in particular as a common attitude towards language. Prescription with r…
Neurological Evidence For A Functional Basis for Lexical Categories
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Quaker Plain Speech
When the Singular pronoun thou began to lose ground in the 1600s in Standard English, there was one group ofnonconformists, the Quakers, who resisted this change and initiated a policy of linguistic divergence called Quaker Plain Speech. Quaker Plain Speech wasfoundedon a contradiction between the inclusive aims of the policy and the inherently exclusive nature of linguistic divergence. After the first flush of missionary zeal Quaker Plain Speech…
On Monosemy
Quaker Plain Speech
When the Singular pronoun thou began to lose ground in the 1600s in Standard English, there was one group ofnonconformists, the Quakers, who resisted this change and initiated a policy of linguistic divergence called Quaker Plain Speech. Quaker Plain Speech wasfoundedon a contradiction between the inclusive aims of the policy and the inherently exclusive nature of linguistic divergence. After the first flush of missionary zeal Quaker Plain Speech…
On Monosemy
Neurological Evidence For A Functional Basis for Lexical Categories
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Quaker Plain Speech
When the Singular pronoun thou began to lose ground in the 1600s in Standard English, there was one group ofnonconformists, the Quakers, who resisted this change and initiated a policy of linguistic divergence called Quaker Plain Speech. Quaker Plain Speech wasfoundedon a contradiction between the inclusive aims of the policy and the inherently exclusive nature of linguistic divergence. After the first flush of missionary zeal Quaker Plain Speech…
Ebonics
The thesis of this paper is that no substantive and impartial debate about the pedagogical value of using Ebonics in the classroom could be held in the United States media because America's prescriptive attitude towards Ebonics does not allow fair and objective consideration of the issue. In presenting this theme I will discuss language ideologies in general and prescription in particular as a common attitude towards language. Prescription with r…
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Proselytizing (whether religious or political) and the spread of languages of wider communication have been linked together since the beginning of recorded history (Ostler, 2008). However, it seems
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works)