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I'm an adjunct full professor
at UC Berkeley's School of
Information. My linguistics
research
includes work in semantics and pragmatics, text classification, and
written-language structure, and I also work and write on the social and
cultural implications of new technologies.
I do a feature on language on
the NPR show "Fresh Air" and have
written
numerous commentaries on language for the Sunday New York Times
Week in Review, as well as for other periodicals. I've also contributed
occasional "letters from America" to the BBC4 series "State of the
Union." I'm the emeritus chair of the usage panel of the American
Heritage Dictionary.
For the
that-and-a-nickel-will-get-you-on-the-subway file: I have a Bacon
number of 3 and an Erdös
number of 4, making for an Erdös-Bacon
number of 7.
Books
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My last book was -- deep breath now -- Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned
Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating,
Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving,
Left-Wing Freak Show (PublicAffairs, July 2006). It was chosen
as one of 10 best nonfiction books of 2006 by Washington Monthly.
Reviews
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My previous book Going Nucular (PublicAffairs, 2004)
was
selected by Amazon.com as one of the 10
best nonfiction books of 2004 and as one of the "top 10 books of
the year" by January magazine and the San
Jose Mercury News. It was also named best language book of
the year by the Hartford Courant and listed among the year's
best language books by the Chicago Tribune and the Boston
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- Some pieces from the Sunday New York Times Week in Review
An Adjective for
Cakes, but Not for Bill Gates 4/30/06
Teaching
Students to Swim in the Online Sea 2/13/05
It's
sort of Like a, You Know, Verbal Rorschach Test 10/17/04)
Other Times pieces
Other commentaries & pieces
The Language
of Death, Los Angeles Times, 2/12/07
Wars
and Word Games (on "civil war"),
Los Angeles Times, 12/3/06
Words Failed the GOP Los Angeles Times, 11/19/06
Frame
Game (George Lakoff's politico-linguistics)
This
Isn't Patriotism, Los Angeles Times, 9/9/06
Islamo-Creeps" Would Be More Accurate,
Los Angeles Times,
8/16/06
Democrats'
Loser Linguistics, Los Angeles
Times, 6/11/06
Other
pieces on politics, language, and technology
A teapot tempest on political
labels and media bias
Some pieces on language and law.
Some new essays & articles
The Shadow of Language (to appear in Quaderni di Studi Semiotici)
Is it Ever Okay Not to Disclose Work for Hire? (To appear in the International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law, Volume 16, Number 2)
Google Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. Chronicle Review, 8/31/10. [NB: not my title] See also Tramas y Texturas, 10.
Going nuclear
Going nuclear
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School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720
nunberg at-sign berkeley-dot-edu
Blogs, &c.
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