1 Naomi Baron Quotes

"Naomi S. Baron" is a Linguistics/linguist and professor of linguistics at the Department of Language and Foreign Studies, at American University, in Washington, D.C.. Her areas of research and interest include computer-mediated communication, writing and technology, language in social context, language acquisition and the history of English. She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.

[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/TheEnglishLanguage/?view=usa&ci=9780195313055 "Always On: Joint Winner of the 2008 Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award"], Oxford University Press news, 2008.

She was a Guggenheim Fellowship/Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Program/Fulbright Fellow, and president of the Semiotic Society of America, and has published many books.

Her book, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, which was published in 2008, won the English-Speaking Union’s HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award for 2008.

[http://www.esu.org/page.asp?p=1833 "HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award 2008"], ESU, November 12, 2008