Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

BAAL Book Prize 2007

This book sets forth the author‟s research on style and stylization among adolescents in urban settings. It examines how speakers in a London school draw on a variety of resources – a foreign language, stylized varieties of English, bits and pieces of media culture – in their everyday activities; the kinds of conversational inferences evoked by these practices; the ways they contribute to situa...

BAAL Book Prize 2005

Edwards, Viv (2004) Multilingualism in the English-speaking World. Blackwell first review One of the main strengths of this book is the originality of its approach to the topic: it adopts a thematic angle, rather than the more obvious „geographical‟ approach, dealing with one country at a time. This makes for a very useful book. Also, the style is excellent and the book is readable and accessib...

A Great Plains Presidential Primary?

This paper examines the feasibility of establishing a regional presidential primary for the Great Plains States. It reviews the introduction ofprimaries for selecting national convention delegates, and the slowness of these states to adopt this method. Further, it surveys the use of the primary in the region, noting the independence ofGreat Plains voters in both the prereform and post-reform pe...

Birds of the Great Plains: Three Decades of Change in Great Plains Birds: A 2009 Supplement to The Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution

Weeds [from Encyclopedia of the Great Plains]