Ampersand is an international, open-access journal "serving the breadth of the general and applied linguistics communities." Intended to serve a broad audience from researchers and practitioners to lay readers, the journal publishes articles that span many linguistic realms, including "applied and historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics and syntax." In...

Drawing on information collected during the 2000 Census, this latest brief from the Census Bureau looks on language use and English-speaking ability across the country. Authored by Hyon B. Shin and Rosalind Bruno, this 11-page report begins with a brief discussion of the questions asked about language use on the 2000 Census reporting form. The initial findings include the fact that approximately...