Ronald R Butters

Dados Biográficos

ID732345
NOMERonald R Butters
PRENOMESRonald R
SOBRENOMEButters
ASSINATURABUTTERS R R
AFILIAÇÕESDuke University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS44
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES38
TOTAL COMO AUTOR44
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1968
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Linguistic Analysis of Disputed Meanings

    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 …

  • Too Much of a Good Thing Would Be Wonderful

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2015Referências: 22

    Book Review| February 01 2015 Too Much of a Good Thing Would Be Wonderful Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications. Edited by Mallinson, Christine, Childs, Becky, and Van Herk, Gerard. New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xvi + 334. ISBN 978-0-415-89856-0; $170 (pbk/ebk $49.95) Ronald R. Butters Ronald R. Butters Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (1): 106–117. https://doi.org/10.12…

  • Linguistic Analysis of Disputed Meanings

    Open AccessRonald R ButtersCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Trademark (legally often shortened to mark ) is a term used commonly to describe words and images that are intended to distinguish uniquely the commercial source of a product or service from that of competitors.

  • Language, Meaning and the Law by Chris Hutton

    Open AccessRonald R ButtersARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2011

  • The Forensic Linguist’s Professional Credentials

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEInternational Journal of Speech…2010

    Under current court practice, it is not difficult for anyone with a PhD in English or linguistics to be allowed to testify as a ‘linguistics expert’ in many types of cases. Linguists and professors of English may, however, find themselves in ethically questionable and professionally embarrassing situations if they attempt to assert expertise in subfields at the margins of their linguistic specialization. This paper briefly describes some such sit…

  • Roger W. Shuy , Linguistics in the courtroom

    Open AccessRonald R ButtersARTICLELanguage in Society2008

    Roger W. Shuy, Linguistics in the courtroom: A practical guide . New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 146. Hb $35.00. The focus of Linguistics in the courtroom is narrower than the title implies: It is not intended for, say, linguists who are courtroom interpreters or those who are concerned with reforming jury instructions to make them more intelligible. Rather, this is a succinct, authoritative guidebook for linguists who give sci…

  • How Not to Strike it Rich

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEApplied Linguistics2004

    Journal Article How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of a Massachusetts Lottery Game Card Get access Ronald R. Butters Ronald R. Butters Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 466–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/25.4.466 Published: 01 December 2004

  • Intuition, Data, and Meaning

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2002Referências: 3

    Research Article| August 01 2002 INTUITION, DATA, AND MEANING RONALD R. BUTTERS RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (3): 327–328. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-3-327 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation RONALD R. BUTTERS; INTUITION, DATA, AND MEANING. American Speech 1 August 2002; 77 (3): 327–328. doi: https://doi…

  • Data Concerning Putative Singulary'all

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2001Citada por: 1Referências: 4

    Research Article| August 01 2001 DATA CONCERNING PUTATIVE SINGULAR Y'ALL RONALD R. BUTTERS RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (3): 335–336. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-3-335 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation RONALD R. BUTTERS; DATA CONCERNING PUTATIVE SINGULAR Y'ALL. American Speech 1 August 2001; 76 (3): 335–…

  • Presidential Address

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2001Citada por: 1

    Research Article| August 01 2001 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: LITERARY QUALITIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE RONALD R. BUTTERS RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (3): 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-3-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation RONALD R. BUTTERS; PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: LITERAR…

  • Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity

    Ronald R Butters, Joshua A FishmanARTICLELanguage2000

    This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the ethnic revival of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. This volume is interdisciplinary and the contribut…

  • Authority in Language

    Ronald R ButtersREVIEWAmerican Literature2000

  • Semantic and Pragmatic Variability in Medical Research Terms

    Ronald R Butters, Jane Sugarman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech2000Citada por: 4Referências: 2

    Research Article| May 01 2000 SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC VARIABILITY IN MEDICAL RESEARCH TERMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR OBTAINING MEANINGFUL INFORMED CONSENT RONALD R. BUTTERS; RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google JEREMY SUGARMAN; JEREMY SUGARMAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google LYLA KAPLAN LYLA KAPLAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 1…

  • The Internationalization of American English

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2000Citada por: 1

    Research Article| August 01 2000 THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH: TWO CHALLENGES RONALD R. BUTTERS RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 283–285. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-283 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…

  • The “Real” Meaning of Millennium

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech2000Citada por: 3

    Research Article| February 01 2000 THE “REAL” MEANING OF MILLENNIUM RONALD R. BUTTERS RONALD R. BUTTERS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (1): 111–112. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-1-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation RONALD R. BUTTERS; THE “REAL” MEANING OF MILLENNIUM. American Speech 1 February 2000; 75 (1): 111–112. doi:…

  • The Origin of American Black English

    Ronald R Butters, Traute Ewers et al.ARTICLELanguage1998

  • The Death of Black English

    Guy Bailey, Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech1996

  • If the Wages of Sin Are for Death

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech1993

    OTTO JONES AND ERIK SMITH SOLD COCAINE and other drugs in the woods at the edge of a North Carolina town to men and women in automobiles. One night Kevan Hansen made a purchase from Smith; as Hansen was driving away, Smith noticed that Hansen had significantly short-changed him in an apparently deceitful manner. Smith told Jones that he had just received short money, whereupon Jones fired his gun at Hansen's fleeing car, wounding Hansen. Hansen d…

  • Forensic Linguistics Comes of Age

    Ronald R Butters, Judith N Levi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1993

  • Frappe

    Ronald R Butters, Barbara LeedsARTICLEAmerican Speech1991

  • Re-Examining Vernacular Black English

    Open AccessWalt Wolfram, Edgar W Schneider et al.ARTICLELanguage1990

  • Are Permafrost and Vernalization Loan Translations from Russian

    Victor V Kabakchi, Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech1989

  • For the Nonce

    Cynthia Y Krueger, Ronald R ButtersARTICLEAmerican Speech1987

  • The Language of the American South

    Ronald R Butters, Cleanth BrooksARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

  • The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature by Raymond Chapman

    Ronald R ButtersARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1986

    Book Review| April 01 1986 The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature by Raymond Chapman The Treatment of Sounds in Language and Literature. By Chapman, Raymond. Oxford and London: Basil Blackwell and Andre Deutsch, 1984. Pp. 262. $29.95. Ronald R. Butters Ronald R. Butters Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (2): 208–209. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-2-208 C…