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Part I: Language, Education and Cultural Change 1. Language Variation:Students and teachers reflect on accents and dialects, Susan J. Behrens andRebecca L. Sperling 2. Speech Communities: Language as a mediator ofmessages and perceptions, Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth 3. TeachingPronunciation: Using phonology in the ESL and foreign language classroom,Joanna Labov Part II: Literature, Translation and Computers 4. Lexicography:What dictionaries reveal about language and lexicographers, Paul Fallon 5.Text Translation: Approaching otherness, Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero 6.Machine Translation: The challenge of ambiguity, Nan Decker 7. TransgressiveLanguage: The 'n- word' and the 'f- word' in popular culture and all thatJazz, Carmen Gillespie Part III: Language, Power, and Identity 8. Language,Power, and Sexual Assault: Women's voices on rape and social change, JudithA. Parker and Deborah Mahlstedt 9. Gender, Language and Power: Surname orsirname? Diana Boxer 10. The Possibility of Linguistics as a ForensicScience: The case of author identification, Carole E. Chaski Part IV: Formsof Language and Communication 11. First Language Acquisition: Developingnative linguistic competence, Janine Graziano-King and Helen Cairns 12. ASL:A visual language, Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Wood 13. AnimalCommunication: The "language" of honey bees, Wyatt Mangum Part V: Languageand Communication Science 14. Communication Disorders: A personalperspective, Ann Jablon 15. Analyzing narratives: An example of crosscultural research methods, Cecile Stein 16. Neurolinguistics andPsycholinguistics: Contributions to healthy aging and dementia, Yael Neumann,Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou 17. Autism and Language: The twoworlds underlying verbal communication, Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull