Dennis Preston

co-author and festschrift honoree of "Language Regard: Methods, Variation and Change"

December 11, 2018

Dennis R. Preston is a regents professor of linguistics, director of research on the Dialects of English in Oklahoma and co-director of the Center for Oklahoma Studies at Oklahoma State University and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University. He has been a visiting professor at numerous United States and overseas institutions and was director of the 2003 Linguistic Society of America Institute. He was president of the American Dialect Society and served on the executive board of that society and others.

He focuses on sociolinguistics and dialectology and has directed four recent National Science Foundation grants, two in folk linguistics and two in language variation and change. His most recent book-length publications are, with Nancy Niedzielski, “A Reader in Sociophonetics” and, with Alexei Prikhodkine, “Language Attitudes.” He is a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and holds the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic.

This book contains data-rich, methodologically and theoretically innovative contributions to the field of language regard. It is truly a tribute to the far-reaching impact of Dennis Preston's work, to the ways that current research is pushing and challenging the theoretical frameworks in which it is embedded, and to the potential for continuing directions and future work in the field.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2019-honorees/dennis-preston

Last Updated: 15 January 2019