There are 2 messages totalling 36 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ADS-L Digest - 30 Aug 1994 to 31 Aug 1994 2. fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 12:35:00 CDT From: Tom Murray Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 30 Aug 1994 to 31 Aug 1994 I don't know the missing lyrics to Tom Clark's song, but I'll bet it's catalogu ed (somewhere) in the same songbook as this one (which my father used to sing): She's my darlin', she's my daisy, She's cockeyed and she's crazy, She's bowlegged, pigeon-toed, and blind; All her teeth are goin' false Just from drinking' epsom salts-- She's my cockeyed, consumptious Mary Jane. Sorry. Didn't mean to make this a forum for bawdy songs. Tom Murray ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 19:04:10 -0700 From: Mary Bucholtz Subject: fonts Does anyone know of a good, easily available font for the American phonetic alphabet for Microsoft Word? Many of us here at Berkeley would be grateful for any tips. Thanks, Mary Bucholtz Department of Linguistics University of California at Berkeley bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]garnet.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 2 Sep 1994 to 3 Sep 1994 ********************************************** There is one message totalling 12 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Alabama inauguration ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 17:53:32 EDT From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM Subject: Alabama inauguration In Alabama or vicinity, is there an American Dialect Society member who would like to represent the Society at Livingston University's presidential inauguration Saturday, Oct. 1? If so, please let me know asap. Thanks - Allan Metcalf, executive secretary ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 31 Aug 1994 to 2 Sep 1994 *********************************************** There are 2 messages totalling 41 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. fonts 2. Language and Status ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 10:32:35 CST From: salikoko mufwene Subject: Re: fonts The Summer Institute of Linguistics sells phonetics fonts for DOS and Windows, which work very well with several word processors. I cannot find the exact references now in my office (because somebody borrowed my package and has not returned it!), but try to contact the SIL Bookstore in Dallas, Texas. I got mine for about $12 over a year ago; and you are allowed to share it. Best, Sali. Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago Dept. of Linguistics 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu 312-702-8531; fax: 312-702-9861 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 16:29:06 CDT From: "Jennifer K. Snyder" Subject: Language and Status To any who may help: I am working on a presentation for my Linguistics class concerning language and status, i.e. the effects a specific language or dialect can have on one's status. Because its early in the semester, I haven't picked a particular angle yet, any ideas? When I think of this topic, I think of the musical, "My Fair Lady" Has anyone seen it? If you have any information on this topic or ideas for me, please respond. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for your help! Jennifer (c651823[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1) ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 3 Sep 1994 to 4 Sep 1994 ********************************************** There are 3 messages totalling 72 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Language and Status 2. Stocking (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 10:29:02 -0700 From: THOMAS L CLARK Subject: Re: Language and Status I did use the original film version, 1939, by Leslie Howard, with screenplay by Himself (G.B. Shaw). It has some priceless footage of vowel charts and the earliest sound spectrograph on record. Can't remember who played Liza, but she used a few stock cockney forms and didn't slip too much. Much better than the sanitized, colorized, but still sexist "My Fair Lady." (I did let the students see the latter at the end of the semester, but set up a showing outside of class time, had nearly 100% attendance. Color me surprised.) Cheers, tlc On Sun, 4 Sep 1994, Jennifer K. Snyder wrote: > To any who may help: > I am working on a presentation for my Linguistics class concerning language > and status, i.e. the effects a specific language or dialect can have on one's > status. > > Because its early in the semester, I haven't picked a particular angle yet, > any ideas? When I think of this topic, I think of the musical, "My Fair Lady" > Has anyone seen it? > > If you have any information on this topic or ideas for me, please respond. > All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for your help! > Jennifer (c651823[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1) > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 07:40:00 +1200 From: "George Halliday (09)483-9039" Subject: Stocking Term for mugging In the last week I have come across the term "stocking" twice. Once in a newspaper article, once in a TV comedy show produced locally. This is used for robbing some unfortunate kid of the latest trendy article of clothing such as baseball caps with American insignia and seems to be current in Auckland, New Zealand, among street gangs. As their language seems to be heavily influenced by the American media, I was wondering if this is an American term. Geordie Halliday ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 17:10:00 EDT From: Travis Kidd Subject: Re: Stocking On Tue, 6 Sep 1994 07:40:00 +1200 "George Halliday (09)483-9039" said: > Term for mugging > > In the last week I have come across the term "stocking" twice. Once in a > newspaper article, once in a TV comedy show produced locally. This is used for > robbing some unfortunate kid of the latest trendy article of clothing such as > baseball caps with American insignia and seems to be current in Auckland, New > Zealand, among street gangs. As their language seems to be heavily influenced by > the American media, I was wondering if this is an American term. Never hoiduvit. > Geordie Halliday -Travis ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Sep 1994 to 5 Sep 1994 ********************************************** There are 3 messages totalling 75 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. fonts 2. Language and Status: Working Girl 3. Correction: White Trash Cooking ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 09:05:58 -0400 From: "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." Subject: Re: fonts SIL is a source of phonetic fonts, but maybe not for all purposes. They have two products: the SIL Bookstore will send you a disk with a freeware IPA font which is also available on servers (I have no address handy). SIL also has the Encore font set, now in version 2, which is a fully scalable package that includes a couple of different typefaces. I had trouble obtaining it, and in the end didn't buy it. The one review of it that I saw (on the Anglo-Saxonist's network, an early one) suggested that there were some faults in the font set that might cause problems. There are also phonetic fonts available from Adobe, both Times Phonetic and Stone Phonetic. These are fully scalable, commercial fonts. Last, I made bit-mapped phonetic fonts for the Linguistic Atlas in the late 80s. There is a VGA screen-font, and there are 14 soft fonts for downloading to HP Laser Jets. These are not scalable, and the screen fonts work at the DOS level (only DOS windows inside Windows). But they are free. I can provide more information privately. Regards, Bill ****************************************************************************** Bill Kretzschmar Phone: 706-542-2246 Dept. of English FAX: 706-542-2181 University of Georgia Internet: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hyde.park.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602-6205 Bitnet: wakjengl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 08:54:49 -0400 From: BHOWARD Subject: Re: Language and Status: Working Girl Jennifer, the Melanie Griffith/Harrison Ford movie *Working Girl* is one that today's students are still familiar with, and it works powerfully in a sociolinguistics class on language and status. In the movie, Griffith is a working class New Yorker who tries to improve her language by attending speech classes and listening to (and mimicking) a tape of her upper-class boss's speech. Finally she gets the right haircut and "borrows" the right clothes, and voila! she is taken for a corporate executive. Meanwhile her buddy, played hilariously by Joan Cusack, resolutely refuses to change and tells Griffith that she talks fine and shouldn't try to change. As the movie progresses--and as Griffith's status progresses--the contrast between the two becomes increasingly sharp. Becky Howard BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU Department of Interdisciplinary Writing Colgate University, Hamilton NY 13332 Voice (315) 824-7315; FAX (315) 824-7121 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 15:03:01 EDT From: Wayne Glowka Subject: Correction: White Trash Cooking The correct name of the cookbook is _White Trash Cooking_. It is still available in my local mall bookstore. Sorry about the faulty memory. Wayne Glowka Professor of English Director of Research and Graduate Student Services Georgia College Milledgeville, GA 31061 912-453-4222 wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 5 Sep 1994 to 6 Sep 1994 ********************************************** There are 2 messages totalling 41 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Stocking (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 16:38:16 -0700 From: Judith Rascoe Subject: Re: Stocking Could that mystery term be "stalking" and not "stocking"? Some of us use a dialect that doesn't crisply distinguish the two words. (Some of us like me, for instance). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 13:44:00 +1200 From: "George Halliday (09)483-9039" Subject: Re: Stocking The word involved is definately "stocking". It was spelled this way in the paper and was in a comedy show on TV. There is no confusion in the local dialect, which is of a Southern British type, between stocking and stalking. Although there is a possibility that speakers of Polynesian languages confuse the two. The same programme has a segment looking at "White Trash Culture", partly a spoof on the promotion of some aspects of Maori culture in the last decade or so. This includes one of the characters reading from an alleged "White Trash Dictionary". Associated with this culture are also the words "Westie" denoting the Western suburbs of Auckland which is said to have a distinct youth culture involving a laid back surfing lifestyle, lack of materialism (which is associated with "Shories" ), a preference for large V8 beaten up old cars and black-clothing. Two words which are associated with Westies used by other young Aucklanders are "druff" and "bow-gin" (hard g). I haven't seen either of these words in print and have no idea of their origins. Nor do any of the people who use them. Druff is possibly a contamination based on rough and dreck - although dreck is not common here - and seems to be an Auckland word. Bowgin seems to have wider currency. Geordie Halliday ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Sep 1994 to 7 Sep 1994 ********************************************** There are 4 messages totalling 64 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Language and Status (2) 2. Elevated colleague 3. frequency in English ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 07:53:45 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: Language and Status Re Jenny Snyder's request about a presentation on status: How about the movie "Working Girl" which was discussed here last week? (I still haven't seen it!) Tim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 14:07:48 EDT From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM Subject: Elevated colleague Press release from the Center for Applied Linguistics: . . . Donna Christian . . . new president. Congratulations to a distinguished colleague! - Allan Metcalf ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 15:12:53 -0700 From: THOMAS L CLARK Subject: Re: Language and Status On Sat, 10 Sep 1994, Timothy C. Frazer wrote: > How about the movie "Working Girl" which was discussed here last week? > (I still haven't seen it!) I ran out and rented it after someone on the list mentioned it. Melanie Griffin does a pretty good pygmalion dragging herself up by her bootstraps, but the message is not so clear as in the Leslie Howard production. Melanie takes a speech class, which we never attend. She practices pronouncing Sigourney Weaver's voice a bit. She gets rid of the 'big hair' and dresses for success. She pulls off a business deal and gets her man at the end. But Harrison Ford isn't that great a catch, and the linguistic aspect of status is very minor in the production. I'll stick with the 1939 production for a bit. Cheers, tlc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 17:19:45 PDT From: Joseph Jones Subject: frequency in English A question that came into the library: what is the frequency distribution of letters in the English language. I'd seen that one before and could walk to a fairly decent answer. Then I was asked, what about frequency distribution with respect to the letter's position in the word. I suggested rooting around in the area of cryptanalysis. Can anyone point us to any specific source on this? Thanks. Joseph Jones jjones[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unixg.ubc.ca University of British Columbia Library ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 9 Sep 1994 to 10 Sep 1994 *********************************************** There is one message totalling 11 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. frequency in English ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:14:12 -0700 From: THOMAS L CLARK Subject: Re: frequency in English One regularly used is etaonrish... Cheers, tlc ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 10 Sep 1994 to 11 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 4 messages totalling 76 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. frequency in English (2) 2. etaoin shrdlu (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:08:19 -0700 From: "Joseph B. Monda" Subject: Re: frequency in English etaoin shrdlu On Sat, 10 Sep 1994, Joseph Jones wrote: > A question that came into the library: what is the frequency > distribution of letters in the English language. I'd seen > that one before and could walk to a fairly decent answer. > Then I was asked, what about frequency distribution with > respect to the letter's position in the word. I suggested > rooting around in the area of cryptanalysis. Can anyone > point us to any specific source on this? Thanks. > > Joseph Jones jjones[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unixg.ubc.ca > University of British Columbia Library > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 08:52:45 EDT From: Larry Horn Subject: Re: frequency in English I seem to recall the sequence etaoinshrdlu, perhaps as the sequence of printers' blocks arranged for frequency of use. In fact there was even a character in a novel I once read--The Circus of Doctor Lau?--named Etaoin Shrdlu. It does have the virtue of being pronounceable. Of course, the question can't really be answered unless we fix on which variety of English text we're talking about. --Larry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 16:27:02 EDT From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM Subject: etaoin shrdlu I trust everyone knows this is "the letters produced by running the finger down the first two vertical rows of keys at the left of the keyboard of a Linotype" to quote the nearest dictionary (Random House College). That is not the same as highest frequency, though the Linotype was supposedly arranged to make the most frequent letters the most convenient. Speaking of printers, consider the type case which held hand type (and from which we get the expressions "upper case" and "lower case.") It has been many years since I used one, but I remember how big the space was for the lower-case e. - Allan Metcalf ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 16:50:05 EDT From: Wayne Glowka Subject: Re: etaoin shrdlu I was once told by an English major from Chile that Chilean comedians imitate the sounds of English (without using any English at all) by endless repetition of fricatives, especially /s/. She did not specify which vowels should go between the s's. Notably, she did not get the joke when someone in class (me) imitated Spanish by making a lot of /k/ and trilled /r/ sounds; however, we were on common ground with a honking nasal imitation of French. Wayne Glowka Professor of English Director of Research and Graduate Student Services Georgia College Milledgeville, GA 31061 912-453-4222 wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 11 Sep 1994 to 12 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There is one message totalling 36 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. etaoin shrdlu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:16:14 -0500 From: debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU Subject: Re: etaoin shrdlu > >Wayne Glowka say, >I was once told by an English major from Chile that Chilean comedians >imitate the sounds of English (without using any English at all) by endless >repetition of fricatives, especially /s/. She did not specify which vowels >should go between the s's. Notably, she did not get the joke when someone >in class (me) imitated Spanish by making a lot of /k/ and trilled /r/ >sounds; however, we were on common ground with a honking nasal imitation of >French. My friend Lucy Moreira, a romance linguist who just left Urbana to teach at UGA, came back from Athens last month after house-hunting and did an imitation of a southern accent that, despite her own Brazilian phones, was both quite recognizable and not unlike my own feeble attempts to reproduce one. Of course she also found out that anyone with a Hispanic accent trying to rent in Athens is just plain out of luck. In the end she had to have someone else rent for her. Welcome to America. dennis -- Dennis Baron debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uiuc.edu Department of English 217-333-2392 University of Illinois fax: 217-333-4321 608 South Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 12 Sep 1994 to 13 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 5 messages totalling 94 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. "homosexual slang" reference (2) 2. Housing in Athens 3. Addresses 4. A date in Dayton ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:16:02 RSA From: lynne murphy <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WITSVMA.WITS.AC.ZA> Subject: "homosexual slang" reference sorry to bother you with such a trivial problem, but... i have a copy of an article called "homosexual slang" by julia (penelope) stanley which appeared in _american speech_ in the early 70s. now, i'd understood the date of this article to be 1970, but at the end it says "received january 1972" and i also have no volume and number info for it. could someone with a more complete collection of AS help me out with the full bibliographical data? thanks in advance, lynne murphy university of the witwatersrand ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:33:43 -0400 From: "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." Subject: Housing in Athens I was disturbed by Dennis Baron's message about a (former) colleague who had reported a problem finding housing in Athens. I asked the Head of her new department about it, and heard that: [LM] arrived very late, had very specific requirements . . . . We hired a number of other foreign instructors (French, Polish, Peruvian, and others) who had no difficulty. We also have a great number of new and old teaching assistants in Spanish, some of whom have marked Spanish accents. The conclusion seems hasty and unwarranted. The conclusion, of course, was Dennis's statement that "anybody with a Hispanic accent trying to rent in Athens is just plain out of luck". I may not be a native Southerner, and I have little to say about the kind of conversation that goes on in Urbana, but I did want to clear the air about such public Athens- and South-bashing. Regards, Bill ****************************************************************************** Bill Kretzschmar Phone: 706-542-2246 Dept. of English FAX: 706-542-2181 University of Georgia Internet: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hyde.park.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602-6205 Bitnet: wakjengl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 15:22:24 -0400 From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" Subject: Re: "homosexual slang" reference I have tried three times to send requested information to the person who asked about Stanley's article in AS. Three times the Postmaster rejected the address in%"104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WITSUMA.WITS.AC.ZA" If the person at that address will send me a correct internet address, I shall try again. Bethany Dumas - dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utkvx.utk.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 18:18:38 -0500 From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Addresses > rejected the address in%"104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WITSUMA.WITS.AC.ZA" If the person ^ That U is supposed to be a V. It's 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WITSVMA.WITS.AC.ZA -- I just checked the list of subscribers. And on the subject of addresses, I found out today that there's an error in one of the list addresses I gave in the recent SECOL Review. I left out the -l in hel-l (history of the language list). It's HEL-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EBBS. ENGLISH.VT.EDU. --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 19:43:40 EDT From: AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM Subject: A date in Dayton Is there a member of the American Dialect Society who would like to represent the Society at Wright State U, Dayton OH, on Friday October 7 at two o'clock for the inauguration of Harley E. Flack as president? If you enjoy hobnobbing with distinguished colleagues from many fields towards the head of the line (societies are lined up according to age, and we are relatively old), reaffirming the academic community, getting your name (and ours) in the official program, etc. - please let me know. The reward is the deed itself; we don't have a budget to help you with travel. Thanks - Allan Metcalf ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 13 Sep 1994 to 14 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There is one message totalling 13 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. "homosexual slang" reference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 15:16:48 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: "homosexual slang" reference On the AmSp article dated 1970 but recevied 1972: The journal got behind in those years so the 1970 (dated) journal was a couple of years late. Papers from the first "Methods" conference (at Prince Edward Island) were read in 1972 but printed in the 1971 issue, which appeared in 1973. Tim Frazer ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 14 Sep 1994 to 15 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 2 messages totalling 37 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. videos 2. trying to reach Kate Ojibway ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 09:55:00 CDT From: Edward Callary Subject: videos does anyone have a list (including sources and ordering information) of video tapes on variation that they would be willing to post to the list? Outside of American Tongues and He said She Said, I know of few others. I am also interested in tapes on International Varieties of English. I you know of only one or two others, let me know; if there is a sufficient number (and sufficient interest) I will summarize for the list. Edward Callary Northern Illinois University ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 12:50:58 CDT From: Mike Picone Subject: trying to reach Kate Ojibway Excuse me for posting this to everyone, but all previous attempts to reach Kate Ojibway (using the e-address I have from an old message) have failed. If she or anyone who knows her reads this, please instruct me as to how to get in touch. Many thanks, Mike Picone University of Alabama MPICONE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UA1VM.UA.EDU ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 15 Sep 1994 to 16 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 3 messages totalling 73 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. videos 2. ADS-L Digest - 15 Sep 1994 to 16 Sep 1994 (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 11:39:11 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: videos Where do you get he said, she said? tim frazer On Fri, 16 Sep 1994, Edward Callary wrote: > does anyone have a list (including sources and ordering > information) of video tapes on variation that they would > be willing to post to the list? Outside of American > Tongues and He said She Said, I know of few others. I am > also interested in tapes on International Varieties of > English. > > I you know of only one or two others, let me know; if there > is a sufficient number (and sufficient interest) I will > summarize for the list. > > Edward Callary > Northern Illinois University > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 14:38:48 -0400 From: ALICE FABER Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 15 Sep 1994 to 16 Sep 1994 Edward Callary asks: >> >> does anyone have a list (including sources and ordering >> information) of video tapes on variation that they would >> be willing to post to the list? Outside of American >> Tongues and He said She Said, I know of few others. I am >> also interested in tapes on International Varieties of >> English. >> I you know of only one or two others, let me know; if there >> is a sufficient number (and sufficient interest) I will >> summarize for the list. Please do summarize. A colleague of mine who teaches in an early childhood education program (mostly reading instruction) is VERY interested in knowing what's available. I forwarded to her all the old info I had saved on e.g. American Tongues, but she could use more. To fill the gap, she made some recordings of 3 British colleagues of very different backgrounds (RP, London, West Country). Thanks. Alice Faber Faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Haskins.yale.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 14:19:00 CDT From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 15 Sep 1994 to 16 Sep 1994 Please give the date and time of the ADS session for the MMLA. thanks, beth simon simon[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 16 Sep 1994 to 19 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There is one message totalling 20 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. mmla/ads ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 11:20:22 -0500 From: Joan Livingston-Webber Subject: mmla/ads Beth asked about the ads/mmla meeting time. ads meeting at m/mla is on Sat. Nov. 12, 8:30-10 am. The Name Society is Sat from 2:15-3:45. M/MLA went to a fri-sun conference. In the change, we didn't get the sessions back to back as usual. And we got that horrible early Saturday time! We'd like folks to plan to go to lunch together between the two sessions. -- Joan Livingston-Webber webber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unomaha.edu "What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other." -Clifford Geertz ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 1994 to 20 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 2 messages totalling 60 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Call for Proposals 2. nebby/nibby ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 11:13:00 PDT From: alva Subject: Call for Proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS. The 1995 annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held on October 19-22 in Milwaukee, WI. "Reflections on Relationships in Oral History Research" is the theme. OHA invites scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and fields to submit by December 15, 1994, proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and entire sessions. Contact Professor Michael A. Gordon, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201; (414) 229-4314; fax (414) 229-6827; e-mail mgordon[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]csd4.csd.uwm.edu; or Professor Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Department of English, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5092; (616) 387-2629; fax (616) 387-3999; e-mail etter_lewis[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]wmich.edu Dale Treleven/Alva Stevenson, UCLA Oral History Program (senders). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 15:26:13 EDT From: David Bergdahl Subject: nebby/nibby Ohio University Electronic Communication Date: 21-Sep-1994 03:13pm EST To: Remote Addressee ( _MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ) From: David Bergdahl Dept: English BERGDAHL Tel No: (614) 593-2785 Subject: nebby/nibby My wife was a psychotherapist in Pittsburgh before I met her and one of the local expressions that puzzled her when she first arrived was "nebby" for nosey or meddlesome, e.g. "She's so nebby she wants to know everything." It's recognized by Iron City residents as a localism alongside "Sasa:d" [southside], "StillMills"[steelmills--of which there are few anymore--another localism] and "redd up" [straighten up the house/make ready]. Yesterday one of my freshman students from Columbus Ohio (both parents natives also] used the term "nibby" with the same meaning. How wide is the distribution of nebby/nibby? I've heard "nebby" very rarely and OU students from Pittsburgh area don't universally know it, but this is the first "nibby" I've heard in 27 yrs. Anybody on the list know either? DAVID David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens OH BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CaTS.OHIOU.EDU Received: 21-Sep-1994 03:26pm ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 20 Sep 1994 to 21 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 3 messages totalling 52 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. nebbie/nibbie 2. nebby 3. nebby/nibby ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 16:30:00 +1200 From: "George Halliday (09)483-9039" Subject: nebbie/nibbie Nebbie/nibbie These are both Scots words from neb, which is the Scots word for "nose". The Concise Scots dictionary gives "nib" etc. as a variant, with the some meaning for "nebbie" as in American English i.e. nosey, inquisitive. Redd is also a very common Scots word, with redd the table or redd up being the most familiar usages to me in Scots. Geordie Halliday ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:00:32 EDT From: Michael Montgomery Subject: nebby The term _nebby_ most likely represents another contribution of the Ulster Scots (Scotch-Irish) to the Upper Ohio River Valley, where they were the largest European group in the late 18th/early 19th century. Many Ulster glossaries list the term. Michael Traynor in his _English Dialect of Donegal_ does so perhaps most in detail; he offers three senses, one adjectival, two nominal: 1. impertinent, ill-natured; 2. a tell-tale gossip; 3. a cheeky forward person. Along with _redd up_, _you'uns_, _need_ + past part., and others, the term _nebby_ can be traced back directly to Ulster and ultimately to Scotland. Michael Montgomery, Dept of English, U of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:56:05 CST From: Joan Hall Subject: Re: nebby/nibby The DARE materials show nebby to be almost entirely restricted to central and western Pennsylvania (there's one stray informant from Florida). The nibby responses are more widespread, coming from Indiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, and "South" (from a somewhat questionable source). ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 21 Sep 1994 to 22 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There is one message totalling 69 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Job(s) at Georgia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 13:58:30 -0400 From: "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." Subject: Job(s) at Georgia Here following is a posting about jobs at Georgia, which includes a search for a History of the Language person and the possibility of an instructor hire in ESL. I have been asked to post *all* of the advertisement, other positions and all, so I hope list members will bear with the rest to get to the best. Regards, Bill ****************************************************************************** Bill Kretzschmar Phone: 706-542-2246 Dept. of English FAX: 706-542-2181 University of Georgia Internet: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hyde.park.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602-6205 Bitnet: wakjengl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga The Department of English at the University of Georgia seeks to make three tenure-track appointments, to begin September 1995: 1. Assistant professor in creative writing, preferably in fiction, with a secondary emphasis in one or more literary fields. We seek a published writer with terminal degree and significant publications, including one or more books with a nationally recognized press. 2. Assistant professor in English language studies, with specific emphases in history of the English language and English grammar. A secondary emphasis in literature is required. Ability to teach syntactic theory would be useful. 3. Assistant professor in rhetoric and composition, with a secondary literary interest, to teach graduate courses in rhetorical theory and pedagogy and undergraduate courses in expository and technical writing and to work with other faculty to develop additional courses in these areas. Experience with computers and writing will be helpful. Candidates must have PhD or appropriate terminal degree and demonstrated potential as outstanding teachers and scholars. Teaching experience and publication record are desirable. We will interview at SAMLA and MLA; availability for interview at the latter is essential. We encourage minority applicants. The department may also make one or two instructor appointments for the 1995-96 year to candidates who are ABD or better and who have training and experience in teaching freshman composition and English as a second language. The University of Georgia Department of English has 45 tenured or tenure-track faculty members committed to excellence in research and in undergraduate and graduate instruction. We offer nationally competitive salaries, support for research and instruction, an excellent research library, and a low cost of living in an attractive town of 80,000 near Atlanta. Direct letter of application and vita to Hugh Ruppersburg, Head, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30605-6205. Deadline: November 15. AA/EOE. ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Sep 1994 to 23 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There is one message totalling 104 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 12:03:51 -0400 From: SKIESLING[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS *********** CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS *** The Georgetown Linguistics Society announces "Developments in Discourse Analysis" February 17-19, 1995 Georgetown University ********** Deadline for Abstracts and Colloquium Proposals: November 18, 1994 THE GLS 1995 CONFERENCE invites you to submit abstracts and colloquim proposals representing original, unpublished work on all aspects of, and approaches to, discourse analysis. Abtracts and colloquium proposals will be accepted from any discipline, but should be based on natural language data. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Individual papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. Send three copies of a typed double-spaced abstract no more than 250 words long. Do not put any identification on the abstracts. 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ADDRESS: Send abstracts, colloquium proposals, registration, and other correspondence to GLS Georgetown University Department of Linguistics 479 Intercultural Center Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 Questions may be directed to: modang[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu (internet) modang[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.bitnet (bitnet) (202) 687-6166 (voice) PLEASE POST AND FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES. Thank you. ************* ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 23 Sep 1994 to 24 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 4 messages totalling 85 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. intro linguistics texts (4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 09:47:58 -0500 From: Alan R Slotkin Subject: intro linguistics texts I've been using the Fromkin/Rodman 5th ed. in my intro. course. I'm fed up with its misprints, etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions that members of the list might have for a replacement text--while the course is taught on the 400 level, it is populated by students with relatively little language/linguistics knowledge/background. Thanks in advance. Alan Slotkin ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]tntech.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 17:06:49 -0700 From: THOMAS CLARK Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Alan R Slotkin wrote: I'd appreciate any suggestions that members of the > list might have for a replacement text--while the course is taught on the > 400 level, it is populated by students with relatively little > language/linguistics knowledge/background. This semester I am using Ed Finegan's Language: its Structure and Use. I am using it primarily because it comes with a workbook by Frommer and Finegan. I call this my "baby linguistics class" because it is for rank beginners. So far I like it fine, and the students appreciate the structured workbook approach. And they are thrilled to be able to tell Mom that they are "doing linguistic problems in Japanese, Hebrew, and all manner of exotic languages as well as English. Now, if I can only get them to understand allophones of phonemes... Cheers, tlc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:42:06 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts We need an intro text which is not written for beginning linguistics majors, but for students who have no idea what the topic is, are not intellectually adventurous, who need to see in every page what the topic means in their lives. For sociolinguiistics, Elaine Chaika's text does this better than any I have seen, but we need one which works as well in a general intro to the discipline. Tim Frazer On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Alan R Slotkin wrote: > I've been using the Fromkin/Rodman 5th ed. in my intro. course. I'm fed up > with its misprints, etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions that members of the > list might have for a replacement text--while the course is taught on the > 400 level, it is populated by students with relatively little > language/linguistics knowledge/background. > > Thanks in advance. > > Alan Slotkin > ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]tntech.edu > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:43:36 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts I wasn't happy with the F/R text. It tries to be too broad, and the chapters are thin--and not very appealing to laypeople. (See my other post.) Tim ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 24 Sep 1994 to 26 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 4 messages totalling 99 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. intro linguistics texts (3) 2. Intro Texts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:02:40 RSA From: lynne <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WITSVMA.WITS.AC.ZA> Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts we've had a lot of success teaching intro to ling. with o'grady et al's _contemporary linguistics_. i think it goes into a bit more detail than fromkin and rodman, and so is good for an intro class with more experienced students. lynne murphy university of the witwatersrand ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:21:59 CST From: salikoko mufwene Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts In Message Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:42:06 -0500, "Timothy C. Frazer" writes: >We need an intro text which is not written for beginning linguistics >majors, but for students who have no idea what the topic is, are not >intellectually adventurous, who need to see in every page what the topic >means in their lives. For sociolinguiistics, Elaine Chaika's text does >this better than any I have seen, but we need one which works as well in >a general intro to the discipline. This past year, I tried INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE: CENTRAL PROBLEMS IN LINGUISTICS by Ronald Wardaugh (1993) and was generally happy with it. It also has a useful glossary in the end. I complemented it with readings from LANGUAGE: INTRODUCTORY READINGS, 5th edition, ed. by Clark, Escholz, and Rosa (1994). The latter offers alternative but overlapping essays on several traditional topics of linguistics. Most of the essays are thought-provoking and current. Sali. Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago Dept. of Linguistics 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu 312-702-8531; fax: 312-702-9861 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:09:00 CDT From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts I'm using Finegan for Introduction to the Study of Language. Many of his explanations assume an audience with some intellectual experience, but I tend to ignore thosse (and provide the theory and explanations for them). And the glossary is worse than unusable for the kind of students Tim desdribes, BUT I like Finegan for the wealth of data. I'm using LANGUAGE: INTROD READINGS (5th) for The Study of English, which tends to have more of the education majors. Most of the essays excellent examples of good prose literature, and the presentation is makes the material accessible. I've gone around and around, shall I use Finegan again next semester, and until Tim or I or one of you write(s) the text Tim wants, I think Finegan it is. For the Introduction to Linguistic Analysis, which is billed as an upperlevel (undergrad & grad) couse but which will have students without any experience, I think I'll order the OH Lang Files. Have folks been happy with that ? beth simon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 22:04:26 -0500 From: Joan Livingston-Webber Subject: Intro Texts I'm using the St Martin's Language: Introductory Readings. (there's a new 5th ed.) This is the third time I've used it. This is also a 400 level intro, required for teachers and the 1st course in an esl endorsement. I like the approach using some "real" readings. (I miss the Bickerton article in this edition.) I do have to supplement-- teach using data sets which I have to put together. But it's the third time around and I have a good file now. Intro here is taught by three of us. It feeds into Structure course, taught by only one (not me). The other two use standard textbooks for the course. My students, I have been assured, come equally well prepared for Sturcture. My theory is that students forget a LOT from the intro course under most circumstances and that having done real readings that use the concepts (as in language acquisition studies) increases the likelihood of remembering the concepts involved. My students who have gone into Structure have also assured me that they were better at phonology than others but not as good in syntax. I'm trying to rectify that this time around. -- Joan Livingston-Webber webber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unomaha.edu "What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other." -Clifford Geertz ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 26 Sep 1994 to 27 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 3 messages totalling 54 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Intro Texts 2. intro linguistics texts 3. unsub ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:20:11 CST From: salikoko mufwene Subject: Re: Intro Texts In Message Tue, 27 Sep 1994 22:04:26 -0500, Joan Livingston-Webber writes: >I'm using the St Martin's Language: Introductory Readings. (there's >a new 5th ed.) ... (I miss the Bickerton article in this edition.) Bickerton has a new and provocative contribution in the 5th edition, titled "The continuity paradox." His original essay in the 4th edition has been replaced by a contribution by David Crystal, titled "Pidgins and creoles," which I find rather shallow and out of date. Sali. Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago Dept. of Linguistics 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu 312-702-8531; fax: 312-702-9861 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:44:25 -0500 From: debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU Subject: Re: intro linguistics texts I've used Finegan a couple of times; it works quite well. The tone is good and there are plenty of examples and exercises to choose from. Didn't know about the workbook. I'll have to get a copy. I usu. supplement the text with other stuff, mostly readings on language issues. dennis -- Dennis Baron debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uiuc.edu Department of English 217-333-2392 University of Illinois fax: 217-333-4321 608 South Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:49:05 -0400 From: JASON MAYFIELD Subject: unsub Unsubscribe Please ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 27 Sep 1994 to 28 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 6 messages totalling 135 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Textbooks for Sociolinguistics (4) 2. letter frequency 3. nibby ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:03:35 -0500 From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics As long as we're on a textbook thread, do any of you have suggestions for Sociolinguistics? I've got to turn in a book order for it next week. The two times I've taught the course before I've used Wardhaugh. Although it works ok, the students find it a bit dry and boring. So do I. I've thought about using Fasold but don't want to make the students buy two books and am not sure that buying just one of the two would give a full enough view (_Sociolinguistics of Language_ and _Sociolinguistics of Society_). --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:04:56 -0400 From: "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." Subject: Re: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics I have used Wolfram's *Dialects and American English*, and it has worked well. There are a few places in it that I heavily supplement or orient in class somewhat differently from the way that Walt writes (as one might expect), but in general it works well. I taught both volumes of Fasold one quarter, but the students were about ready to murder me at the end. There is just too much there. I learned alot---and that was really my purpose, because I would not have read the books as closely as I did unless I taught them. The new Romaine introduction to the field (Oxford, 1994) was disappointing to me for its coverage of historical stuff and American English, but it was good at the things that Wolfram doesn't cover (language planning, pidgins/creoles). For graduate students I teach mostly from articles (often recent ones from *Language Variation and Change*). Regards, Bill ****************************************************************************** Bill Kretzschmar Phone: 706-542-2246 Dept. of English FAX: 706-542-2181 University of Georgia Internet: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hyde.park.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602-6205 Bitnet: wakjengl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:17:45 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics On Thu, 29 Sep 1994, Natalie Maynor wrote: > As long as we're on a textbook thread, do any of you have suggestions > for Sociolinguistics? I've got to turn in a book order for it next week. > The two times I've taught the course before I've used Wardhaugh. Although > it works ok, the students find it a bit dry and boring. So do I. I've > thought about using Fasold but don't want to make the students buy two > books and am not sure that buying just one of the two would give a full > enough view (_Sociolinguistics of Language_ and _Sociolinguistics of > Society_). > --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu) Elaine chaika's {Language: the Social Mirror} is highly readable and fun for the sorts of students I teach, who will not become professional lignuists. I might nit-pick with her over some details, but it's way better than the others in terms of student enjoyment. i can't remember all the chapters offhand, but i know it covers bilingualism, style (e.g., register), kinesics, oral culture (raps, ritual insults, etc.), pragmatics (speech acts, etc.) atlas-type dialectology, Labovian dialectology, interactional structure, and gender. There's a final chapter on sociolinguistics and the professions (law, etc.) that I haven't yet used or read. Most chapters have some exercises and mini-reserach project at the end that I require my student to do, selectively, and write up. They are very provocative. I supplement the text with a Tannen book because I do a lot on gender. I also use some extra handouts I write on the dialectology of my region, since Chaika is not familiar with the midwest. She has some good references to language variation in movies, TV shows, and Rock music (the latter a little dated unless you have older students who grew up with the Stones and Beatles). Students always rate this text very highly. I also use Wolfram's {American Dialects} (not the title-?????????) which I like but which the students find boring. I wish Robbins Burling would do an update and reissue {English in Black and White}. Tim Frazer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:21:33 -0500 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics Bill has the correct title of the Wolfram Text I was groping for. Since U - Ga is more selective in admissions than my college, I can see where Wolfram would work for undergrads there. Here I use it for grads. Like Bill I sometimes assign a book in order to get a better read of it for myself. Sometimes it works (I teach new stuff better) and sometimes I almost murdered like Bill did. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:27:00 -0400 From: Martha Howard Subject: letter frequency Didn't anyof you read Poe's "The Gold Bug?" We learned all about letter frequency, by position as well as by occurrence, in my Navy communications training for coding and cyphering (known as cooking and sewing) but every- thing was so top secret that I can't vbegin to imagine how to get hold of it now. They were so blasted security conscious that we walked around Mt. Holyoke carrying a 4" thick copy of navy communication regs with a LEADcover--so it would sink if the ship went down--in the middle of Mass. yet! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:40:47 -0400 From: Martha Howard Subject: nibby I think I have used nibby all my life. I know I use and hear it frequently now. But in tracing my life from Chicago to Kansas City to the Ozarks, to Michigan to West Virginia, I cannot by any stretch of the imagination figure out where I first picked it up. ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 28 Sep 1994 to 29 Sep 1994 ************************************************ There are 2 messages totalling 23 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Textbooks for Sociolinguistics 2. Job Announcement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 10:42:58 -0500 From: Charles F Juengling Subject: Re: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics Wolfram's _Dialect's and American English_ is a fine book, but it's loaded with printing errors. Has a reprint with corrections been released yet? Fritz J ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 12:43:56 -0500 From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Job Announcement Anticipated position for Assistant Professor, tenure track, in TESOL and American Literature, preferably Southern Literature. Ph.D. required. Send letter of application and vita to Henry J. Donaghy, Head, Department of English, Mississippi State University, Drawer E, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Deadline: November 21, 1994. AA/EOE. ------------------------------ End of ADS-L Digest - 29 Sep 1994 to 30 Sep 1994 ************************************************ .