Ronald R. Butters
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ronald R. Butters is involved.
2008 Trademarks and other proprietary terms Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 231–247 | Article
Especially in North America, trademark litigation constitutes a prominent area of applied linguistics. As legal consultants, linguists bring their professional expertise to bear upon three issues: (1) likelihood of confusion of two marks; (2) categorization of the strength of a mark with respect to… read more
2002 Preface Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2, Long, Daniel and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. xv–xvi | Preface
1996 Historical and contemporary distribution of double modals in English Focus on the USA, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 265–288 | Article
1987 Review of Edwards (1986): Language in a Black Community Language Problems and Language Planning 11:2, pp. 220–224 | Review
1987 Review of Newbrook (1986): Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral English World-Wide 8:2, pp. 304–307 | Review
1985 Review of Cheshire (1982): Variation in an English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Study & Davis (1983): English Dialectology: An Introduction & Leith (1983): A Social History of English & Lodge (1984): Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English & Sutcliffe (1982): British Black English Language Problems and Language Planning 9:3, pp. 215–227 | Review
SUMMARY This essay offers a comparative review of five recent sociolinguistic studies. Although each of these texts focuses on some aspect of English—its variation within a particular community, its history, the study of non-standard variants—these works demonstrate the influence on the… read more