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Dennis Baron (born May 9, 1944) is a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.〔(Dennis Baron front page ) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of English website ) Retrieved 2009-08-24.〕〔(Selected biographies ) of contributors to "Do You Speak American?" Retrieved 2009-08-24.〕 His research focuses on the technologies of communication; language legislation and linguistic rights; language reform; gender issues in language; language standards and minority languages and dialects; English usage; and the history and present state of the English language.〔(Directory entry ) from The Linguist List. Retrieved 2009-08-24.〕 ==Education and Professional History== Baron received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1965; an M.A. from Columbia University in 1968; and a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Michigan in 1971.〔(Vita ) of Dennis Baron at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of English website ) Retrieved 2009-08-25.〕〔(Media contacts ), American Dialect Society. Retrieved 2009-08-24.〕 He taught high school English in New York City and in Wayland, Massachusetts. Before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1975, he taught at Eastern Illinois University and at the City College of CUNY. Baron is of Romanian-Jewish descent on his grandmother's side.〔Candy Sagon, "Chicken Soup for the; The Successful Book Series Nurtures the Soul. Now It's Time to Get Back to the Bowl." , ''The Washington Post'', January 13, 1999.〕 Baron has held a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He twice chaired the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Language, which gives out the annual Doublespeak and George Orwell Awards;〔(Public language awards committee ), NCTE. Retrieved 2009-08-24.〕 he edited the monograph series Publications of the American Dialect Society,〔 and he has served on professional committees of the Modern Language Association and the Linguistic Society of America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Baron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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