Finegan, Edward | USC Gould School of Law

Selected Works

Books

Language: Its Structure and Use, 6th ed. (Wadsworth, 2012).

Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics, 5th ed. (with Paul Frommer) (Wadsworth, 2012).

Language: Its Structure and Use, 5th ed. (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008).

Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics, 4th ed. (with Paul Frommer) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008).

Language in the USA: Themes for the 21st Century (edited with John Rickford) (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Language: Its Structure and Use, 4th ed. (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).

Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics, 3d ed. (edited with Paul R. Frommer) (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004).

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Mainland China edition (with others). (Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000).

Language: Its Structure and Use, 3d ed. (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999).

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (with others) (Longman, 1999).

Looking at Languages, 2d ed. (with Paul Frommer) (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999).

Language: Its Structure and Use, 2d ed. (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994).

Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994).

Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register (edited with Douglas Biber) (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Language: Its Structure and Use (with Niko Besnier) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989).

Attitudes Toward English Language: The History of a War of Words (Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1980).

Articles and Book Chapters

“Standardization: Prescriptive Tradition.” In Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook (Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton, eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2012). Pp. 967-80.

“Discourses in the Language of the Law.” In The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (James Paul Gee and Michael Handford, eds.). London: Routledge (2012). Pp. 482-93.

“Corpus linguistic approaches to ‘legal language’: adverbial expression of attitude and emphasis in Supreme Court opinions.” In Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (M. Coulthard and A. Johnson, eds.). London: Routledge (2010). Pp. 65-77.

“English.” In The World’s Major Languages, 2nd ed. (B. Comrie, ed.) London: Routledge (2009). Pp. 55-89.

“Expert linguists and the whole truth.” International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 16, 2 (2009), 267-77.

"Expert Linguists and the Whole Truth," 16 International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law 2 (2009).

"North American English." In A History of the English Language (R. M. Hogg and D. Denison, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Linguistic Prescription: Familiar Practices and New Perspectives. 23 Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 213 (2003).

English. In Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2d ed. (W. Frawley, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2003).

English Grammar and Usage. In English in North America (John Algeo, ed) (The Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 6) (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Register Variation and Social Dialect Variation: The Register Axiom (with Douglas Biber). In Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Practicing Prescriptivism Now and Then. 75 American Speech 247 (Fall 2000).

English Grammar and Usage. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 4 (Suzanne Romaine, ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Sociolinguistics and the Law. In The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (F. Coulmas, ed.) (Blackwell, 1997).

Subjectivity and Subjectivisation in Language: An Introduction. In Subjectivity and Subjectivisation in Language (S. Wright and D. Stein, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

That and Zero Complementisers in Late Modern English (with Douglas Biber). In The Verb in Contemporary English (B. Aarts and C. Meyer, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

ARCHER and Its Challenges: Compiling and Exploring a Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (with Douglas Biber and D. Atkinson). In Creating and Using English Language Corpora (U. Fries and others, eds.) (Rodopi, 1994).

Standard English. In Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts (A. Purves, ed.) (Scholastic Inc., 1994).

Variation Within Medical Research Articles (with Douglas Biber). In Corpus-Based Research Into Language (N. Oostdijk and P. De Haan, eds.) (Rodopi, 1994).

Book Reviews

“Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors: Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography," ed. Michael Adams. Dictionaries 33 (2012), 259-65.

"Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process," by Diana Eades. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 18, 2 (2011), 319-24.

"Practical Lexicography: A Reader," ed. Thierry Fontenelle. Dictionaries 30 (2009), 136-39.

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