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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi all,</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A few years ago, on this listserv, I posted a question about monological military language ideologies of command-and-compliance. I received
some great responses, which included the following recommendations:</span></span></p>
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<p><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Carol Cohn,
"Sex </span></span><span data-markjs="true" class="markaw2vur1ai" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-ogacdata-ogabdata-ogscdata-ogsb=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
death in the rational world of defense intellectuals." </span></span><em style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Signs
</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(1987).</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<p><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Catherine
Hicks Kennard, "Redefining femininity: female drill instructors in the United States Marine Corps.” SALSA VII (1999), Department of Linguistics, U. Texas at Austin, pp. 87-98.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Charlotte Linde, "</span></span><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
Quantitative Study of Communicational Success: Politeness </span></span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark8344yvqm4" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-ogacdata-ogabdata-ogscdata-ogsb=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Accidents in Aviation Discourse.</span></span></font><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">” Language
</span></span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark8344yvqm4" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-ogacdata-ogabdata-ogscdata-ogsb=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Society, </span></span></span></font></font><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Vol.
17, No. 3, Sep., 1988.</span></span></font></span></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Although these sources vary in focus, hopefully one or two of them will be useful for your search! And my thanks again to the folks who originally
recommended these.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Matt</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linganth] Military Standard English?</font>
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<div dir="auto">This really deserves a good library search and probably a dissertation but I couldn’t resist sending a quick comment from on board a train. I have recent anecdotal confirmation from a student, and from one of my cousins, that the US military
*currently* has a language standardization policy. I don’t know how robust it is. My interlocutors said that they sometimes struggled to understand other members of their units, and that miscommunications were resolved informally.</div>
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<div dir="auto">On the margins of my research on contemporary language standardization in Japan I have heard stories about a change in military language policy there, moving from regionally-based units to units that were intentionally made up of soldiers from
all across the archipelago. Apparently this policy was instituted specifically to facilitate national (linguistic) unity. </div>
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<div dir="auto">But I’m afraid I don’t have any sources at my fingertips to back this up, except for the Amtrak magazine. It looks like they’ve cut way back on their research budget for historiography of 20th century Japan...</div>
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<div dir="auto">Edwin K. Everhart</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:00 Galey Modan <<a href="mailto:gmodan@gmail.com">gmodan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Has anyone ever heard of US Military Standard English? I'm doing a section on language standardization in a class; a student of mine was talking to her grandfather about it, and he mentioned that when he was in the military, the military took
an active approach to standardizing both accent and grammar so that there would be no risk of miscommunication in life-or-death situations. I guess this would have been in the 60s or 70s? I'd appreciate any leads anyone might have about this, as I've never
heard of this before.
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