Associate Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)
tel.: (607) 777-4714
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail:rmclain@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
English Language Education
English Language
Linguistics
Modern literature
Current Projects
"Cooperating with Texts: Beyond Grice"
"Grammar, Literacy, and Text Editing"
Books and Recent Articles
Poetica Americana: orientaria actuale
An Annotated English-Romanian Dictionary of American Figurative Language
A Dictionary of American Idioms and Idiomatic Usage
"The Semantics of Style: With the Example of Quintessential Hemingway,"
Language and Style
Corpus Linguistics
Awards
Chancellor's and University Award for Excellence in Teaching 1989-90
