Macaulay, Ronald K. S.

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MACAULAY, Ronald K. S.

MACAULAY, Ronald K. S. Scottish, b. 1927. Genres: Language/ Linguistics. Career: British Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, lecturer, 1955-60; British Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina, lecturer, 1960-64; Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, assistant professor, 1965-67, associate professor, 1967-73, professor, 1973-99, dean of faculty, 1980-86, vice president for academic affairs, 1984-86, emeritus professor of linguistics, 1999-. Visiting lecturer, International Summer School for English Language teachers, Santiago, Chile, 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961, and ICANA Summer School for English teachers, Buenos Aires, 1962, 1964; visiting instructor, University of California, Los Angeles, summer quarter, 1968; visiting scholar, The Scottish Council for Research in Education, Edinburgh, 1973. Publications: Language, Social Class, and Education: A Glasgow Study, 1977; (with M. Ramirez, A. Gonzalez, B. Cox, and M. Perez) Spanish-English Bilingual Education in the United States, 1977; Generally Speaking: How Children Learn Language, 1980; Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr, 1991; The Social Art: Language and Its Uses, 1994; Standards and Variation in Urban Speech, 1997. EDITOR: (with R.P. Stockwell) Linguistic Change and Generative Theory, 1972; (with D. Brenneis) The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology, 1996. Contributor to linguistic texts. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Department of Linguistics, Pitzer College, 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, U.S.A. Online address: ronald_macaulay@pitzer.edu

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