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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Dear Jim:</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">I teach at ASU and for quite a while we had an interdisciplinary program at the M.A. level in which 1-2 courses in linguitics anthropology were normally taken by the students. The program granted degrees in 3 areas: English, Foreign Lgs. (Spanish), and Anthropology. Then finally after years of work we got planning authority for a degree and possible dept. and the structure was changed. At the last minute the program lost funding and English housed the core. There is still a university level commitee with representatives from the different depts. with linguists, but at this point, there are no required courses in ling anth, though as a manner of course, I get some students from English each semester. There is an M.A. LInguistics track, a Ph.D. track in Linguistics/Rhetoric, and an TESL track in English. Our old anthro ling track has almost disappeared due to lack of students who have been siphoned off by the richer offerings in English and the T.A. ships. I still serve on committees and have these students in my courses, but overall ling anth is hurting from its previous status. We have 2 linguists in anthropology, but we have had only 3 Ph.D.s in this area and maybe 10-12 M.A. level people. The M.A. people have gotten jobs in other fields where they sometimes use their training. The Ph.D.s all have tenure track jobs, 2 in anthro depts. and one in Asian Studies.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Betsy Brandt</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">From:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Barbara Johnstone</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Reply To:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">The Discourse Studies List</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Sent:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Monday, March 27, 2000 1:58 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">To:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Subject:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Geneva">Re: interdisciplinary graduate programs involving linguistic anthropology</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jim,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Do you mean interdisciplinary in an administrative sense (i.e.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">interdepartmental) or interdisciplinary in the intellectual sense?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Barbara</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">--On Monday, March 27, 2000, 7:45 AM -0700 "Jim Wilce" <jim.wilce@NAU.EDU></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I'm interested in hearing from those who self-identify as linguistic</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> anthropologists and who teach in **interdisciplinary** graduate programs</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> that might bring together such fields as linguistics (including applied</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> socio-), rhetoric, discourse studies, cultural studies, and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">communications.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I would like to know how the interdepartmental/university politics work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> you, what is your institutional role (and that of linguistic anthropology</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> courses) in the graduate program, and what sorts of jobs your students</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">get.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I will compile comments for the list if you reply directly to me at</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> jim.wilce@nau.edu.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Jim Wilce, Associate Professor</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Anthropology Department</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Box 15200</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Northern Arizona University</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Flagstaff AZ 86011-5200</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> fax 520/523-9135</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> office ph. 520/523-2729</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> email jim.wilce@nau.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22/" TARGET="_blank">http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22/</A></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> (includes information on my 1998 book,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Bangladesh, ISBN 0-19-510687-3. Call OUP NY office at 800/334-4249.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://www.nau.edu/asian" TARGET="_blank">http://www.nau.edu/asian</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Barbara Johnstone</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Department of English</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Carnegie Mellon University</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">bj4@andrew.cmu.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">+1 412 268 6447</FONT>
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