LINGUIST List 21.3506 Thu Sep 02 2010 Disc: Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Michel DeGraff, Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti Message 1: Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti Date: 01-Sep-2010 From: Michel DeGraff <degraffmit.edu> Subject: Re: Medium of Instruction in Haiti E-mail this message to a friend Dear all, In response to the 'Culture and Geopolitics' section of Patrick-Andre Mather's LinguistList posting ''Medium of Instruction for Creole Languages'' (posting # 21.3469, dated Mon, 30 Aug 2010): I would like to alert LinguistList readers that some of my musings on these issues, in the particular context of post-earthquake Haiti, have now been published---in the Boston Globe (in the U.S. on June 16) and in Le Nouvelliste (in Haiti on August 30): http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/06/16/language_barrier_in_haiti/ http://www.lenouvelliste.com/articleforprint.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=82891 There are also discussions of these and related issues in the Boston Globe online comments to my Op-Ed article and on the Linguistic Anthropology blog and the LingAnth mailing list: http://www.linguisticanthropology.org/2010/08/11/petition-on-haitian-kreyol/ http://www.linguisticanthropology.org/2010/09/01/michel-degraff-on-haitian-kreyol/ I hope these contributions can be helpful to LinguistList readers as well. Thank you, -Michel Michel DeGraff MIT Linguistics & Philosophy 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139 degraffMIT.EDU http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/degraff Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Language Acquisition Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.