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<P>you are sending your mail to the wrong address. I am not Clare!<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Sunderland, Jane" <j.sunderland@LANCASTER.AC.UK></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>List for the International Gender and Language Association <GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG></I><BR>To: <I>GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</I><BR>Subject: <I>An Urgently-needed Campaign</I><BR>Date: <I>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:16 +0100</I><BR>><BR>><BR>>*Sorry for replying to the list, I couldn't find the sender's address!*<BR>><BR>>Dear Clare,<BR>>I have done as encouraged and forwarded your email to colleagues here at<BR>>Lancaster, where it has triggered some debate. We are thinking about a<BR>>joint statement to Trevor Phillips, but would like to read the original<BR>>text of his speech before doing so. Do you have any idea how to get hold<BR>>of it?<BR>><BR>>Best regards,<BR>>Veronika
Koller<BR>><BR>><BR>>Veronika Koller<BR>>Lecturer in Critical Discourse Analysis<BR>>Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University<BR>>Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT<BR>>Phone: ++44-(0)1524-594642<BR>>Fax: ++44-(0)1524-843085<BR>>Web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/koller/index.htm<BR>><BR>>"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." (Mary<BR>>Wollstonecraft)<BR>><BR>>-----Original Message-----<BR>>From: The LINGUIST List. LISTSERV Server (14.4)<BR>>[mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG]<BR>>Sent: 26 June 2006 11:01<BR>>To: Koller, Veronika<BR>>Subject: Rejected posting to GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>><BR>>You are not authorized to send
mail to the GALA-L list from<BR>>your<BR>>v.koller@LANCASTER.AC.UK account. You might be authorized to post to the<BR>>list from another of your accounts, or perhaps when using another<BR>>mail program configured to use a different e-mail address, but<BR>>LISTSERV has no way to associate this other account or address with<BR>>yours. If you need assistance or if you have any questions regarding<BR>>the policy of the GALA-L list, please contact the list owners at<BR>>GALA-L-request@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG.<BR>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Koller, Veronika" <koller@exchange.lancs.ac.uk></I><BR>To: <I>"List for the International Gender and Language Association" <GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG></I><BR>Subject: <I>RE: An Urgently Needed Campaign!</I><BR>Date: <I>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:13:06 +0100</I><BR>>*Sorry for replying to the list, I couldn't find the sender's address!*<BR>><BR>>Dear Clare,<BR>>I have done as encouraged and forwarded your email to colleagues here at<BR>>Lancaster, where it has triggered some debate. We are thinking about a<BR>>joint statement to Trevor Phillips, but would like to read the original<BR>>text of his speech before doing so. Do you have any idea how to get hold<BR>>of it?<BR>><BR>>Best regards,<BR>>Veronika Koller<BR>><BR>>Veronika Koller<BR>>Lecturer in Critical Discourse
Analysis<BR>>Department of Linguistics and English Language<BR>>Lancaster University<BR>>Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT<BR>>Phone: ++44-(0)1524-594642<BR>>Fax: ++44-(0)1524-843085<BR>>Web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/koller/index.htm<BR>><BR>>"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." (Mary<BR>>Wollstonecraft)<BR>><BR>>-----Original Message-----<BR>>From: International Gender and Language Association<BR>>[mailto:GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Clare Walsh<BR>>Sent: 25 June 2006 17:09<BR>>To: GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>>Subject: An Urgently Needed Campaign!<BR>><BR>>Dear All,<BR>><BR>>This is my first ever posting to the list, but it is one that has been<BR>>inspired by my sheer disbelief and then consternation at comments made<BR>>by a keynote speaker at a conference today in
London entitled 'Diversity<BR>>Matters'<BR>>run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in conjunction with<BR>>the Arts Council.<BR>><BR>>Like many of you, no doubt, I have struggled for years to challenge my<BR>>students' deep-seated prejudices about non-standard Englishes being<BR>>'debased' forms of the language and I have tried to promote the value of<BR>>linguistic diversity and the central role it plays in shaping the<BR>>identity of individuals and their communities. Yet Trevor Phillips, the<BR>>head of the Commission for Racial Equality in England no less, claimed<BR>>today that he is worried about declining standards of English amongst<BR>>the young and, despite all the empirical siciolinguistic evidence to the<BR>>contrary, about the alleged inability of young people to code-switch<BR>>when this is required, notably
in job interviews. I knew as soon as I<BR>>challenged him that he had probably written me off as a middle class<BR>>white woman who lives in an ivory tower and his patronising response was<BR>>that he hoped that I was right otherwise people like me were<BR>>disadvantaging the future prospects of young people as a result of<BR>>well-meaning, but erroneous beliefs! It was as if he had been primed by<BR>>Professor John Honey himself and perhaps he had.<BR>>However, I am asking for your help in challenging this dangerous myth by<BR>>emailing info@cre.gov.uk <mailto:info@cre.gov.uk> , citing studies that<BR>>you are aware of that offer a very different view of young people's<BR>>linguistic behaviour in Britain and elsewhere. Needless to say, I<BR>>wasted no time in sending him as many scholarly references as I
could<BR>>think of.<BR>><BR>>In his speech, Phillips also made two other highly contentious claims<BR>>that may be of interest to you as feminist researchers involved in the<BR>>field of language and gender. One was that Disney films promote<BR>>enlightened contemporary fables castigating selfishness and greed (he<BR>>obviously hasn't read Jack Zipes' work or Marina Warner's critique of<BR>>the represention of gender politics in 'Beauty and the Beast'). The<BR>>other was that 'The Godfather' should be celebrated as the ur-narrative<BR>>of American immigrant life. Never mind the fact that it glamorises<BR>>violence and endorses a traditional patriarchal view of women's<BR>>secondness (or perhaps I am being unfair here?).<BR>><BR>>I feel so much better now that I have got this off my chest an into an<BR>>email
that will be going into the mail boxes of so many eminent feminist<BR>>academics and I urge you all to help me prevent other audiences from<BR>>having to endure the pedalling of such dangerous myths by such an<BR>>influential figure. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone outside<BR>>the list that you think might find it of interest.<BR>><BR>>Best wishes - Clare<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>
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