Gentle Request

[Richard J Senghas]

[Redirected to the list at Maggie Ronkin's request.  -RJS]
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Hello all,

I have an interesting query from a student at Oberlin College, where  
I am temporarily teaching a course titled Language in the USA.  We  
are using Finnegan’s and Rickford’s 2004 text and have not reached  
the section on language ideologies, which may prove to be relevant  
and helpful.  Most students in the course are bright, articulate, and  
energetic sophomores with no exposure to linguistic anthropology or  
sociolinguistics.  Given this brief background, Eric Gibbs is  
pursuing a course project on the role of Latin education in the USA.   
Eric has studied Latin and some of his topical interests are:

historic ideas of the importance of Latin as part of a liberal arts  
background.
pedagogic points that have been stressed in relation to 1.
the role of Latin in the contemporary context, including its place in  
the collegiate curriculum, medicine, and law, and ideas in  
circulation about how relevant learning a dead language is in  
relation/comparison to learning modern spoken languages.

He is having difficulty finding sources that are more current than  
the first half of the twentieth century, and would like to do so.  It  
would be great if anyone could suggest some readings, especially  
readings in linguistic anthropology and/or on ‘Latin language  
ideology’.  Eric would be happy to receive mail directly at:

Eric.Gibbs at oberlin.edu

Thank you very much.

Maggie Ronkin
ronkinm at hotmail.com

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Richard J Senghas  
<richard.senghas at sonoma.edu> wrote:
Hey there Maggie,

Sorry for my oversight.  I'm dropping the ball a bit lately; a little  
overwhelmed with a range of tasks at work.  Sure, I'll be happy to  
post the piece.  I'll also send the link to the list page that should  
allow you to change the address whenever you want.  The new system is  
far friendlier and easier than the old one.

-RIchard
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On 26 Mar 2009, , at 8:28 AM, Maggie Ronkin wrote:

> hi richard ... can you post a message for me to the linganth list?   
> it is a query on behalf of one of my students, actually ...  and i  
> can email it to you ready to go up. i tried to ask you to change my  
> subscription address but got no reply ... thanks.
>
> old liz.ronkin at gmail.com
> new ronkinm at hotmail.com