LINGUIST List 12.821

Fri Mar 23 2001

Qs: Gender Studies/Native Am, SAE/Black Communities

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Beth Snyder, Gender Studies, Native American
2. Robert Trammell, SURVEY OF STANDARD SPEAKERS IN BLACK AMERICA

I am looking for research done on the interactional styles of minority
women, especially Native American women. I know of Bea Medicine's work with
the Lakota, but I can't find other studies. If you know of someone who has
done work in this area of "gender and language", I would appreciate a
response.

Beth Snyder


Bergen Community College
(student at TC Columbia in Applied Linguistics)

Dear Colleagues:

At long last our web site for the Survey on Learning Standard English as D1
or D2 in Black American Communities is up and ready. 

http://www.linguistics.fau.edu/trammell/

We would appreciate it if you could look it over, try it out, take it--if
that is appropriate, and advertise it to potential surveyees. 

If you think of any particular lists or organizations which Standard
English speaking African Americans or others of African descent might
belong to, please advise us. Comments, questions, suggestions, and
criticisms are solicited. 

Unfortunately, due to the deaths of the mother of my co-author and one of
our Web specialists, the site has been delayed until I have only two weeks
before I must speak on the preliminary results of the survey at a
conference on April 6. 

So early results would be especially appreciated. We hope to give a fuller
report in at another conference in October.

Thank you for your help.

Bob Trammell 
Nannetta Durnell-Uwechue


Robert L. Trammell, Professor of Linguistics E-Mail: TRAMMELLfau.edu 
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33431	TEL: (561) 297-3867 FAX: 297-2657