LINGUIST List 8.1815

Sun Dec 21 1997

Qs: Reference, E-mail, "Faux Amis," Back-up on CD

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Sakaedani, Article
2. Richard Coates, Sociolinguistics of E-mail
3. Catarina Forslund FRA, Query : false cognates, faux amis, etc.
4. N o s t a l g i a, Backing up fieldwork recordings on CDs

I am looking for the following paper:

Carlisle R.S. (1988). The effect of markedness on epenthesis in
Spanish/English interlanguage phonology. IDEAL, 3, 15-23.

which is mentioned in 
Major, R.C.& Kim, E. (1996). The Similarity Differential Hypothesis.
Language Learning, 46, 465-496.

First of all, I cannot understand what IDEAL is the abbreviation of.
I could not find this title in a catalogue of the academic journals.

Please give me some information.
Thanks in advance.

Haruko Sakaedani
harukosaa.tufs.ac.jp

Haruko Sakaedani
Higashi-Kamigo 4-3, Sakae,
Yokohama, 247 JAPAN

By way of introduction I am a third year finalist at Sussex University
doing a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology with Development Studies. I
am currently preparing an extended essay on the 'sociolinguistics of
the e-mail' and wondered whether any subscribers to LINGUIST-L
might have any thoughts/opinions they could share with me.

Some thoughts I have at the moment are:

1. There currently exist two types of language: Written standard
English, and spoken English (which comprises different accents,
dialects, etc). By using e-mail it seems to me that there is now
appearing a third type of language - a mixture of the original two.
Many people using e-mail comment on the fact that when reading through
their mail, from reading the screen, the words are those similar to
someone speaking them. i.e. they are colloquial instead of formal (as
in letter writing). Is this universal, or just a result of exchanging
e-mails between students/friends around Britain? If it is universal,
is there a name for this type of new language yet, or is it too new?

2. My second point is that there appears to be a culture of gender
division showing through, with particular reference to listings,
e.g. not as many women as men subscribing; few women actually
participating, and even less women 'flaming'. This last point could
be cultural; perhaps women are not so quick to critise as men (? - I
don't know) but certainly the participation of females on a list (from
my own experience) is dismal. Is there any particular reason for
this?

3. If one considers the sociolinguistics of the e-mail then obviously
aspects such as emotions, lack of verbal/body indicators,
mis-interpretations of text have to be taken into account. Communities
are developing which have no physical boundaries and take no account
of age, background, profession etc. Apart from linguistic skill in
communication and obviously access to a computer and modem, perhaps
this way of communication is fairer and less jugemental than the
conventional way of face to face speech. Because in the past various
accents/colour have been seen as detrimental say, in the employment
market. If now communication is through a more colloquial but written
form, accents/colour can't be detected, and people will have more
chance of gaining employment. Just a thought, but perhaps the effect
of 'speech without a voice' could be extremely good for 'underdogs' of
global society.

Out of these three points, my main interest is the actual language
style coming through on e-mails.

If anyone has any thoughts/suggestions I would be very grateful to
have them. I can be contacted on: sau54central.sussex.ac.uk.

Many thanks for your time

Lucy M Elliott


Richard, thanks
Have a good christmas,

Regards

Lucy

 Dear Linguists,

	Since the term "false friends" (which I used in my request a
couple of days ago) seems to raise some problems, I would like to
specify my request. The phenomenon is perhaps better known as "faux
amis", "false cognates", "deceptive cognates", etc. and I am
especially interested in knowing if anyone has done any research on
French - Swedish "faux amis".

Any information on "faux amis" in general is also welcome. If anyone
can help me, please write to this address: Catarina.Forslundabo.fi

 Thank you in advance!

 Catarina Forslund
 Student of French
 University of Abo Akademi, Finland

Hi,

I am thinking of backing up my sociolinguistic interview recordings
(which were made on audio cassette tapes) on CDs. The number of tapes
are close to 100, each are recorded for 90 minutes (45 min on each
side). A PowerMac 9600/200MP (128Mb/2Gb) can be used as a dedicated
machine for this task (in addition to a manpower, i.e. myself). I
would welcome any input for the basic setups, cons and pros for using
CD as a backup recording media (a friend of mine here actually
suggested that I should use MDs instead of CDs...) or any other tips
for this project from anyone nowledgable/experienced linguists.

Thanks,
............................................................................
Kenjiro Matsuda
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Kobe Shoin Women's University
1-2-1 Shinohara Obanoyama
Nada, Kobe 657 JAPAN
Tel: +81-(0)78-882-6253