CHAPTER 5

Research Resources
Check out the following contemporary readings in communication at your library. (Hint: These are good sources to start with if you are asked to write a research paper!)

Chong-Yeong, L. (2002). "Language and Human Rights." Journal of Intergroup Relations, XXIX: 57-65.

Groscurth, C. R. (2003). "Dialectically Speaking: A Critique of Intergroup Differences in African American Language Research." Journal of Intergroup Relations, XXX: 47-63.

McGlone, M. S., and J. A. Batchelor. (2003). "Looking Out For Number One: Euphemism and Face." Journal of Communication, 53: 251-264.

Mulac, A. J., J. Bradac, and P. Gibbons. (2001). "Empirical Support for the Gender-as-Culture Hypothesis: An Intercultural Analysis of Male/Female Language Differences." Human Communication Research, 27: 121-152.

Weatherall, A. (2002). "Towards Understanding Gender and Talk-in-Interaction." Discourse & Society, 13: 767-781.


Links to Resources on the Web
* Visit the Online Slang Dictionary and read through some of the recent additions to test your own level of current awareness. You can even add some of your own to this growing source of slang terms.

* What percentage of people in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home? Of this number, what languages are most common? Once you've mentally completed this exercise, compare your predictions with actual data from the U.S. Census 2000.

* Visit the Oxford English Dictionary online. Notice the origins of commonly used words in the English language and how their meanings have actually changed over time!