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Tables of Contents for past issues of JEngL

• 39.2(December 2011)
• 39.1(September 2011)

• 39.2(June 2011)
• 39.1(March 2011)
• 38.4 (December 2010)
• 38.3 (September 2010)
• 38.2 (June 2010)
• 38.1 (March 2010)
• 37.4 (December 2009)
• 37.3 (September 2009) Special Issue: Media Representations of Minority Languages
• 37.2 (June 2009)
• 37.1 (March 2009)
• 36.4 (December 2008)
• 36.3 (September 2008)
Special Issue: Language and Vulnerable Witnesses across Legal Contexts
• 36.2 (June 2008)
• 36.1 (March 2008)
• 35.4 (December 2007)
• 35.3 (September 2007) Special Issue: Perspectives on Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century
• 35.2 (June 2007)
• 35.1 (March 2007)
• 34.4 (December 2006)
• 34.3 (September 2006)
• 34.2 (June 2006)
• 34.1 (March 2006)
• 33.4 (December 2005)
• 33.3 (September 2005)
• 33.2 (June 2005)
• 33.1 (March 2005)
• 32.4 (December 2004)
• 32.3 (September 2004)
• 32.2 (June 2004)
• 32.1 (March 2004)
• 31.4 (December 2003)
• 31.3 (September 2003)
• 31.2 (June 2003)
• 31.1 (March 2003)
• 30.4 (December 2002) Special Issue: Teaching American English
• 30.3 (September 2002)
• 30.2 (June 2002) Special Issue: Language and Gender
• 30.1 (March 2002) Special Issue: Poetics
• 29.4 (December 2001)
• 29.3 (September 2001)
• 29.2 (June 2001)
• 29.1 (March 2001)
• 28.4 (December 2000)
• 28.3 (September 2000)
• 28.2 (June 2000)
• 28.1 (March 2000) Special Issue: Historical Corpora
• 27.4 (December 1999)
• 27.3 (September 1999) Special Issue: Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System
• 27.2 (June 1999)
• 26.4 (December 1998)
• 26.3 (September 1998)
• 26.2 (June 1998) Special Issue: Ebonics
• 26.1 (March 1998)
• 25.4 (December 1997)
• 25.3 (September 1997)
• 25.2 (June 1997)
• 25.1 (March 1997)
• 24.4 (December 1996)
• 24.3 (September 1996)
• 24.2 (March 1996)
• 24.1 (January 1996)
• 23.1-2 (1990-1995)
• 22.2 (October 1989 [1993])

39.4 (December 2011)

Articles

To split or to Not Split: The Split Infinitive Past and Present
Moisés Perales Escudero
The Science of Pronominal Usage: He and It in Co-Reference to Inanimate Entities in Late Middle English Texts on Alchemy
Peter Grund
Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: A corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present
Bernard DeClerck, Martine Delorge and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Interview with Terttu Nevalainen
Sebastian Hoffman

39.3 (September 2011)

Articles

Belfast Intonation and Speaker Gender
Orla Lowry
Salience and the Social Meaning of Declarative Contours
Robert Podesva
Semiotic Layering Through Gesture and Intonation: A Case Study of Complementary and Supplementary Multimodality in Political Speech
Norma Mendoza Denton and Stefanie Jannedy
In the Profession: Writing a Dissertation
Robin Queen and Lauren Squires

39.2 (June 2011)

Articles

Dialect and Register Hybridity: A Case from Schools
David West Brown
Short-a in Northern New England
Jim Wood

The Northern Cities Shift in Chicago
Corrine McCarthy

Book Review: Diachronic Change in the English Passive. By Junichi Toyota. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave McMillan, 2008. xvii + 286. ISBN 978-0-230-55345-3
Gea Dreschler and Bettelou Los

Book Review: One Language, Two Grammars? Differences Betweeen British and American English. By Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxiv + 461. ISBN: 978-0-521-87219-5
Lamont D. Antieau

In the Profession: Forensic Linguistics
Ronald R. Butters

39.1 (March 2011)

Articles

The Expression of Negation in British Teenagers' Language: A Preliminary Study
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
The Meaning of Utterance-Final Even
Min-Joo Kim and Nathan Janke

Times May Change, But We Will Always Have Money: Diachronic Variation in Recent British English
Paul Baker

Book Review: Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics. By Diane Larsen-Freeman & Lynne Cameron. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. xi + 287. ISBN 978-0-19-442244-4
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Book Review: Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity (Language, Power and Social Processes Series No. 18). By Peter Auer (ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. viii + 513. ISBN 978-3-11-019080-9
Carol Myers-Scotton

In the Profession: Graduating From the "Real World" to Academia
Colleen Cotter

38.4 (December 2010)

Articles

A Corpus-based Sociolinguistic Study of Indefinitie Article Forms in London English
Costas Gabrielatos, Eivind Torgersen, Sebastian Hoffman, and Susan Fox

The Stuff of Change: General Extenders in Toronto Canada
Sally A. Tagliamonte and Derek Denis

Interview with Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Catherine Evans Davies

In the Profession: Writing and Liberation
Michael Erard

38.3 (September 2010)

Articles

Accommodative Tendencies in Multidialect Communication
Thomas Purneel and Malcah Yaeger-Dror

Mechanisms of Accomodation among Emerging Adults in a University Setting
Douglas S. Bigham

Words, Woods, Woyds: Variation and Accommodation in Schwar Realization among African American, White, and Houma Men in Southern Louisiana
Thea R. Strand, Michael Wroblewski, and Mary K. Good

Diachrony and AAE: St. Louis, Hip-Hop and Sound Change outside of the Mainstream
Rene Blake and Cara Shousterman

Hip-Hop, White Immigrant Youth, and African American Vernacular English: Accommodation as an Identity Choice
Cecilia Cutler

Levels of Linguistic Accommodation across a National Border
Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, and Daniel Ezra Johnson

38.2 (June 2010)

Articles

Modal Verb Usage at the Interface of English and a Related Creole: A Corpus-based Study of Can/Could and Will/Would in Trinidadian English
Dagmar Deuber

Competence, Performance, and Extra Prepositions
Joanna Nykiel

Reviews

The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Vol. I: General-Purpose Dictionaries; Vol. II: Specialized Dictionaries, by A.P. Cowie (ed.)
Tim William Machan

Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions, by Barbara Dancygier & Eve Sweetser (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, vol. 108)
Craig Hamilton

Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina, by Patricial Causey Nichols
Connie Eble


In the Profession

Steve Kleinedler

38.1 (March 2010)

Articles

Explaining Grammatical Variation and Change: A Case Study of Complementation in American English over Three Decades
Juhani Rudanko

An Awkward Companion: Disability and the Semantic Landscape of English Lame
Jessi Elana Aaron

Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study
Christoph Rühlemann

Reviews

Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language, by David Crystal
Seth Lerer

In the Profession

Peer Review in Academic Publishing
Mary Bucholtz

37.4 (December 2009)

Articles

Local and External Language Standards in African American English
Tyler Kendall and Walt Wolfram

Defining Dialect, Perceiving Dialect, and New Dialect Formation: Sarah Palin’s Speech
Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, and Joseph Salmons

"Shut Up and Listen": An Interview with Richard W. Bailey
Michael Adams

Reviews

English: Meaning and Culture, by Anna Wierzbicka
Barbara Dancygier

In the Profession

Choosing the Right Journal for Your Manuscript
Barbara Johnstone

37.3 (September 2009)

Articles

"You're Not from New York City, You're from Rotherham": Dialect and Identity in British Indie Music
Joan C. Beal

Hip-hop in a Post-insular Community: Hybridity, Local Language, and Authenticity in an Online Newfoundland Rap Group
Sandra Clarke and Philip Hiscock

"Aren't We Proud of Our Language?": Authenticity, Commodification, and the Nissan Bonavista Television Commercial
Ruth King and Jennifer Wicks