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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Hello,</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">As a linguist in the Southwest, I think the problem is in the conceptualization of the problem on both ends. "People in Arizona (or anywhere in the Southwest)" and "New York" are such broad categories as to be meaningless. . The great majority of Arizona's population is 1)urban; 2) transient; every few years; 3) from somewhere else. In the Phoenix metro area, we have about half a million recent Spanish-speaking immigrants from many different parts of Mexico, people who are Arizona natives who speak Spanish and English, some 96 different languages spoken in schools, and many different American Indian languages, and lots of dialects of English . </FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">A book which I co-edited, long ago,</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Bilingualism and Language Contact: Spanish, English, and Native American Languages</FONT></U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">. Barkin, Florence, Elizabeth Brandt, and Jacob Ornstein-Galica, eds. New York: Columbia Univeristy Press, 1982 has two papers: one by Cooley and Lujan on speeches by Native American students, and one by Siler and Labadie-Wondergem which deal with this topic in speeches.</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">Kristen Meraglia</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">Sunday, September 24, 2000 2:03 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">discourse help</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hello,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> I am writing a paper on the different interactional and discourse styles</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">between New Yorkers and people in Arizona(or anywhere in the southwest). I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">have been unable to find anything in this area. If you have any</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">information please contact me at Nykris@aol.com. Thank-you Kristen</FONT>
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