Dennis Baron

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Dennis Baron (1944-Present) is currently a professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Baron is known for his work on the technologies of language communication as well as the history and current state of the English language. Baron blogs about communication technology and the use of language, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

Education

Currently, Baron has a blog titled "The Web of Language," which highlights language in the news. "The Web of Language" brings attention to such stories like how the House passed a bill to ban texting in Spanish and how the world's most popular word, OK, turns 172 years old. The blog averages 25,000 pages views per month.

MLA citations for Baron's book publications

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