LINGUIST List 13.2401

Sat Sep 21 2002

Qs: Aetalect, Evaluating Websites for Tenure

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  • randy harris, Query: Aetalect
  • Fox Barbara, evaluating websites for promotion and tenure

    Message 1: Query: Aetalect

     Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:13:59 -0400
    From: randy harris <randirasympatico.ca>
    Subject: Query: Aetalect


    I've been using the term "aetalect" in my intro class for a few years as a term for the generational differences in language (along with regiolect, sociolect, and ethnolect). But I can no longer recover where I got the term from, and can find zero evidence of its usage in the books on my shelves or on the web (not a single hit!). Surely I'm not completely delusional. Does anyone have a reference for me? Respond off-list, and I'll report back in with any results. Thanks.

    Randy Allen Harris Linguistics, rhetoric, and professional communication Department of English, University of Waterloo Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1 http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha http://www.incommensurability.com Most robust email: rahawatarts.uwaterloo.ca

    Message 2: evaluating websites for promotion and tenure

     Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:49:30 -0600 (MDT)
    From: Fox Barbara <bfoxspot.colorado.edu>
    Subject: evaluating websites for promotion and tenure






    Dear Colleagues,

    I wonder if any Linguistics departments have come up with guidelines for evaluating website creation as part of merit evaluation or for promotion/tenure decisions. If your department has developed such guidelines, I wonder if you might be willing to share them with my department.

    Thanks very much. Please respond directly to me.

    Sincerely,

    Barbara Fox Chair, Linguistics University of Colorado, Boulder