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Varieties of English around the world; sociolinguistics; composition; lexicography; stylistics; semiotics; social change; historical linguistics; use of the computer in language and literature; the teaching of English.

Academic governance; community colleges

Books: Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff (2003); Milestones in the History of English in America (papers by Allen Walker Read, 2002); Nineteenth-Century English (1996); Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language (1991); Dictionaries of English (1987); Literacy for Life (with R.M. Fosheim, 1983); English as a World Language (with M. Görlach 1982); Computing in the Humanities (1982); The Sign: Semiotics Around the World (with L. Matejka and P. Steiner, 1978); Early Modern English (1978); Michigan Early Modern English Materials (with J.W. Downer, J.L. Robinson, and P.V. Lehman, 1975); Varieties of Present-Day English (with J.L. Robinson, 1973); Computer Poems (1973); The Computer and Literary Studies (with A.J. Aitken and N. Hamilton-Smith, 1973); Statistics and Style (with L. Dolezel, 1969); An Annotated Bibliography of Statistical Stylistics (with L. Dolezel, 1968); English Stylistics (with D.M. Burton, 1968). Articles on language and lexicography.