LINGUIST List 5.1066

Sat 01 Oct 1994

Qs: Foreign lang stereotypes, Socioling, Pen-pals, Chiac

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1. Edith A Moravcsik, foreign language stereotypes
2. , bibliography:sociolinguistics
3. , internet pen-pals
4. Ellis Goldberg, Chiac

I am posting this on behalf of Sally Keyel, a graduate student at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Please respond to
edithcsd.uwm.edu

Thank you. Edith Moravcsik

"I need literature about American stereotyping of foreign languages;
for example, how Americans portray Indians and Oriental people speaking.
If there is sufficient interest, I will post a summary. Thank you.

Sally Keyel
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"

I'm sorry. I have consulted the linguistics and language
database and reviewed all the journals subscribed to in the
field at Georgetown. I have been reading this list and am
looking at current awareness materials from Europe. What
I'm trying to find is the nerve center for exchanges about
sociolinguistics, ethnopoetics, etc. Most emergent
disciplines have at least one...certainly the fields of
anthropology, folklore, and early American history, in which
I took my graduate degrees, are well-represented on-line
and in serials. Part of assessing the vigor of a discipline
and deciding what to allocate to it in library materials, etc. is
dependent, in part, upon how well it surfaces to people
outside its scholarly core, as well as how well that core
communicates with itself. I had hoped that this listUs readers
could help me discover some of the ways, in print,
sociolinguists work out there ideas among their peers. If
such an internecine house organ does not exist, then I
thought they might be willing to share with me some of the
reasons why (or why is shouldnUt). Many scholarly lists are
self-reflective--yours had seemed to be a list in which a
certain amount of this takes place. Also, I had not realized
that sociolinguistics had grown to the extent that it was no
longer a sub-field of linguistics and that their interests had
branched irrevocably. Would rephrasing my inquiry help, or
is it unsuitable in its very conception? Elisabeth

Hello,

My name is Rebecca Kastendick, and I teach writing to high-level students
in the ESL program at the University of Iowa. I am interested in setting
up some American "e-mail pen-pals" for my students. I would like this
project to be an opportunity for the ESL students to practice writing
in English and to learn more about the American culture through e-mail
messages. It can also be an opportunity for some Americans to learn
about other cultures.

If any of you are students and would be interested in being an e-mail
pen-pal, could you please send me a message? I plan on this being a
project for just this semester and maybe only writing each other once
a week or once every other week.

Thank you.

Rebecca Kastendick
kastendkvaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu

I am looking for information on Chiac .. apparently an Acadian
dialect from southeastern New Brunswick (Canada). At this point
I don't have any confirmation that even the name of the dialect
is correct.
Thanks,
Eli

Eli Goldberg Phone: (905) 833-3905 Ext 235
goldbergeaestor.dots.doe.ca FAX: (905) 833-0398