<div>Dear Marisol,</div> <div> </div> <div>I would be very interested to read more if you could send me a part of your dissertation. </div> <div>I won't use any part of it without your permission.</div> <div>It would be a big pleasure to read about chats because it is something I wonder about a lot.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanking you,</div> <div> </div> <div>Ekaterina.</div> <div><BR><B><I>Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto <deltesm@MUOHIO.EDU></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">One area that may be interesting for you is the Internet. In my own <BR>research on chat rooms I have observed conversational practices that <BR>differ from room to room, but I have also found that some strategies <BR>are present in US and Spanish chats, even if the language of <BR>interaction is different. There seems to be an "Internet culture" <BR>that goes beyond geographical and cultural
boundaries, although the <BR>existence of such "trans-culture" has been mostly explored in the <BR>communication literature, and not so much in the linguistic arena, so <BR>there are more questions to be asked than answers I can point you to. <BR>If you're interested, I could send you the part of my dissertation <BR>that deals with gender and sexual identity performances in dating <BR>chats and shows that local and global cultures coexist in chat <BR>interactions.<BR>Hope this helps,<BR>Marisol<BR><BR><BR><BR>>Dear all<BR>><BR>>I want to initiate a new thread on the topic of gender, language, & <BR>>global processes. The self-serving reason being that I am working <BR>>on my little contribution for the first issue of our journal, Gender <BR>>& Language, focusing on this topic. If you remember, the articles <BR>>in the first issue focus on important and under-explored issues in <BR>>language & gender, so that's the background I'm working with.
Under <BR>>the label "global processes" I want to include transnationalism in <BR>>its different forms (e.g., migrations, remittances, seasonal labour, <BR>>multiple allegiances), as well as more canonical global processes. <BR>>I also want to emphasize the local experience of global processes, <BR>>e.g., that of call-center workers in Bangalore who are expected to <BR>>learn American or British accents as a condition for employment in <BR>>the global service industry, even though they may never have the <BR>>first-hand experience of moving.<BR>><BR>>As you may know, anthropologists have long been concerned with these <BR>>processes and experiences, but linguistic anthropologists and <BR>>sociolinguists have been slower at catching on to the wealth of <BR>>insights that one can gain about (a) gender, (b) language, and (c) <BR>>globality from a focus on the intersection of the three.<BR>><BR>>What works have you found useful at this
intersection?<BR>><BR>>Looking forward to hearing about works I may not know.<BR>><BR>>Niko<BR>><BR>>Niko Besnier<BR>>Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam<BR>>Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto<BR>Assistant Professor<BR>253 Irvin Hall<BR>Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese<BR>Miami University<BR>Oxford, OH 45056<BR><BR>Tel: (513) 529-4519<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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