id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15504 Winter, Michael F. Garber, Marjorie. Academic Instincts. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Pr., 2001. 187p. $19.95 (ISBN 069104970X). LC 00-56510. 2002-01-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 3263 206 50 Garber leaves us with three general types of distinctions, corresponding roughly to the material covered in each of the three chapters: the amateurs ver- sus the professionals; the disciplines ver- sus neighboring disciplines, or fields of study in relation to other fields; and fi- nally the kind of inclusive versus exclu- sive uses of language that we most readily associate with occupational groups jeal- ously guarding the territories they lay claim to, sometimes with legal support and sometimes with next to nothing to restrain the competitive edge. Of course, the Oxford En- glish Dictionary also lists some of the more familiarly contemporary meanings of the term: unintelligibility, meaninglessness in speech and writing, nonsense, gibberish, and other verbal gestures of contempt, par- ticularly where the language in question is characteristic of some identifiable set of practitioners, occupations and professions being among the more obvious examples of these. cache/crl-15504.pdf txt/crl-15504.txt