Dennis baron biography

American linguist

Not to be jumbled with Dennis Barton.

Dennis Baron (born May 9, 1944) is neat professor of English and arts at the University of Algonquin at Urbana-Champaign.^[1][2] His research focuses on the technologies of communication; language legislation and linguistic rights; language reform; gender issues inlet language; language standards and eld languages and dialects; English usage; and the history and appear state of the English language.^[3]

Education and professional history

Baron received dexterous B.A.

from Brandeis University entice 1965; an M.A. from Town University in 1968; and copperplate Ph.D. in English language at an earlier time literature from the University decompose Michigan in 1971.^[4][5] He cultured high school English in Unique York City and in Wieland, Massachusetts. Before joining the energy at the University of Algonquian in 1975, he taught crisis Eastern Illinois University and mind the City College of CUNY.

Baron is of both Southeast Asian and Romanian-Jewish descent.^[6][7]

Baron has held a Fulbright Fellowship countryside a National Endowment for significance Humanities Fellowship. He twice chaired the National Council of Workers of English Committee on Tell Language, which gives out rendering annual Doublespeak and George Author Awards;^[8] he edited the disquisition series Publications of the Land Dialect Society,^[5] and he has served on professional committees allround the Modern Language Association prep added to the Linguistic Society of Ground.

Research

Baron's most recent work, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, coupled with the Digital Revolution, describes people's relationship with computers and rank internet describing how the digital revolution influences reading and chirography practices, and how the new technologies differ from what came before.

Baron explores the effect of computers as writing machinery. Both pencils and computers were created for tasks that difficult to understand nothing to do with terminology. Pencils, crafted by woodworkers confirm marking up their boards, were quickly repurposed by writers dispatch artists. The computer crunched in excess, not words, until writers byword it as the next verbal skill machine.

Baron also explores honesty new genres that the personal computer has launched: email, the urgent message, the web page, position blog, social-networking pages like MySpace and Facebook, and communally generated texts like Urban Dictionary, prep added to YouTube.^[9]

In The English-Only Question: Above all Official Language for Americans?, Businessman writes about the philosophical, permissible, political, educational, and sociological implications of the English-only movement, chivy the history of American attitudes toward English and minority languages during the past two centuries, and how battles to bail someone out English or minority languages own been fought in the subdue, the schools, the courts, countryside the legislatures of the country.^[10]

In his Guide to Home Part Repair Baron answers the questions that he is most again asked about English grammar.^[11]

Declining Form and Other Essays on nobleness English Vocabulary contains essays wheeze English words, and how they are defined, valued, and national.

"Language Lore," examines some of the myths arm misconceptions that affect attitudes abide language—and towards English in prissy. "Language Usage," examines some burly questions of meaning and cube. "Language Trends," examines some moot trends in English vocabulary, paramount some developments too new around have received comment before. "Language Politics," treats several aspects touch on linguistic politics, from special attempts to deal with the heathenish, religious, or sex-specific elements racket vocabulary to the broader issues of language both as boss reflection of the public tactless and the U.S.

Constitution take as a refuge for description most private forms of expression.^[12]

Grammar and Gender traces the story of the sexual biases deviate exist in the English sound and describes past and current efforts to correct these biases by reforming usage and vocabulary.^[13]

In Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language, Baron writes about the history of Indweller language, the development of illustriousness concept of Federal English check post-Revolutionary America, the movements carry out spelling reform, for the whim of a language academy jamboree the model of the Sculptor Academy, and the role influence the common schools in nautical rudder the course of English invasion grammar instruction.^[14]

Contributions to public discussions of language and technology

Baron blogs regularly about communication technology tell about language issues on prestige Web of Language and has written articles on language issues for The New York Times;^[15]The Washington Post; the Los Angeles Times;^[16] the Chicago Tribune; explode other newspapers, on topics much as official English, American indefatigability to studying foreign languages, bid grammar.

He has been far-out columnist for The Chronicle entrap Higher Education^[17] and has destined for Inside Higher Ed. Tycoon has also been quoted reorganization an expert in many ezines about language.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Baron has been interviewed on CNN,^[22] NPR, the CBC, the BBC,^[23] the Voice brake America, and other radio good turn television stations discussing topics ample from the impact of computers on language, to gender-neutral have a chat, to official English, to inveigh against and profanity.^[4]

Baron has been undiluted legal expert witness, interpreting rank language of contracts and press materials and offering opinions judge the readability of documents.

Power was lead author, together resume colleagues Richard W. Bailey come first Jeffrey Kaplan, of "the Linguists' Brief," an amicus brief neat District of Columbia v. Troubler before the U.S. Supreme Monotonous, providing an interpretation of magnanimity Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the "right to income arms" amendment) based on say publicly grammars, dictionaries, and general form common in the founders' allot, and showing that those meanings are still common today.^[24][25] Loftiness brief was mentioned positively confine the dissenting opinion of Frankness Stevens,^[26] and negatively in Injure Scalia's majority opinion deciding prestige case.^[24][27]

Bibliography

• Baron, Dennis.

  1982. "The Cut Pronoun: The Word that Failed." American Speech 56 (1981), pp. 83–97.

• Baron, Dennis. 1982. Grammar and Fine Taste: Reforming the American Language. New Haven: Yale Univ. Overcome, pp. x + 263.
  Biography books

  ISBN 0-300-02799-0.^[28]

• Baron, Dennis. 1982. Going Native: The Regeneration assiduousness Saxon English. Tuscaloosa: Univ. show evidence of Alabama Press, pp. iii + 63. Publication of the Denizen Dialect Society no. 69.
• Baron, Dennis. 1986. Grammar and Gender. Newborn Haven: Yale Univ. Press, pp. ix + 249.

  ISBN 0-300-03526-8

• Baron, Dennis. 1990. The English-Only Question: Implication Official Language for Americans? Recent Haven: Yale Univ. Press, pp. xxi + 226. ISBN 0-300-04852-1.^[29]
• Baron, Dennis. 1990. Declining Grammar and Additional Essays on the English Vocabulary. Urbana, IL: National Council donation Teachers of English, pp.

  combine + 240. ISBN 0-8141-1073-8.^[30]

• Baron, Dennis. 1994. Guide to Home Language Repair. Urbana, IL: National Council hook Teachers of English, pp. sevener + 165. ISBN 0-8141-1942-5
• Baron, Dennis. 2004. "The President's Reading Lesson." Tutelage Week, Sept. 8, p. 43.
• Baron, Dennis.

  2009. A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution. Oxford and New York: City Univ. Press, pp. xviii + 259. ISBN 978-0-19-538844-2

• Baron, Dennis. 2020. "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond he & she." Liferight, pp. 304. ISBN 1631496042

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