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Section I: Language, Education and Cultural Change  1. Language Variation: Students and Teachers Reflect on Accents and Dialects  2. Speech Communities: Language as a Mediator of Messages and Perceptions  3. Teaching Pronunciation: Using Phonology in the ESL and Foreign Language Classroom  Section II: Literature, Translation and Computers  4. Lexicography: What Dictionaries Reveal about Language and Lexicographers  5. Text Translation: Approaching Otherness  6. Machine Translation: The Challenge of Ambiguity  7. Transgressive Language: The 'N- word' and the 'F- word' in Popular Culture and all that Jazz  Section III: Language and Identity  8. Telling and Listening to Difficult Narratives  9. Gender, Language and Power: Surname or Sirname?  10. Forensic Linguistics  Section IV: Forms of Language and Communication  11. First Language Acquisition: Developing Native Linguistic Competence  12. ASL: A Visual Language  13. Animal Communication:  The "Language" of Honey Bees  Section V: Language and Communication Science  14. Communication Disorders: A Personal Perspective  15. Analyzing Narratives: An Example of Cross Cultural Research Methods  16. Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: Contributions to Understanding Healthy Aging and Dementia  17. Autism and Language: The Two Worlds Underlying Verbal Communication