6.386 Qs: Videotape, Eng verbs, East Indian Eng, Singapore Eng

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-386. Sat 18 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117
 
Subject: 6.386 Qs: Videotape, Eng verbs, East Indian Eng, Singapore Eng
 
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:02:35 -0800 (PST)
From: David Ganelin (ganelin at netcom.com)
Subject: '60 Minutes' - March 5, 1995
 
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 15:47:31 GMT
From: Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Subject: speech act verbs--request for lexicon
 
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:04:32 -0500 (EST)
From: cr (cranki1 at zeus.towson.edu)
Subject: REQ:Papers on East Indian English
 
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 10:32 +0800
From: 91A26936217F (91A26936217F at am.nie.ac.sg)
Subject: Native English
 
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:02:35 -0800 (PST)
From: David Ganelin (ganelin at netcom.com)
Subject: '60 Minutes' - March 5, 1995
 
There was a portion on '60 Minutes' last Sunday (3/5/95) about non-standard
varieties of English.  If anyone in the Los Angeles area happens to have
this on videotape, I'd like to arrange to get a copy of it.  One of my
classmates (who is not on the 'net) at Cal. State University - Earthquake, I
mean Northridge, would like to view it for research for her paper in our
class in Linguistic Variation.  Thanks for your kind cooperation.
 
David Ganelin  ESOL Instructor - The English Language Center, Westwood, LA
               Linguistics Student - CSUN
 
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 15:47:31 GMT
From: Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Subject: speech act verbs--request for lexicon
 
 
Does anyone know of any available lexicon or list of English verbs by
their speech act properties--not a philosophical list, something like
a lexicon of appropriate verbs with something like a "speech act
valency" in terms of some fairly standard taxonomy of speech
act types, and expressed in some plausible predicate-argument
type notation?
 
Yorick Wilks
yorick at dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
 
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:04:32 -0500 (EST)
From: cr (cranki1 at zeus.towson.edu)
Subject: REQ:Papers on East Indian English
 
Hello,
 
I am new to this list and already need some help.  I have searched
through the WEB and GOPHER the best I know how and cannot find any info
on East Indian English. I am a grad student and both of my research
papers depend on my findings.  I have got the recent books but I wanted
to get some "cutting edge" info on a sociolinguistic slant: Indian
immigrants in America.
 
Thanks for you help,
 
Cynthia Rankin
 
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 10:32 +0800
From: 91A26936217F (91A26936217F at am.nie.ac.sg)
Subject: Native English
 
Greetings from Singapore,
 
I'm a fourth year Arts student of National Technological University
and this is the first time I'm sending a message to the list.
 
Many people would not regard S'pore English as a "native" English.
However, there are many speakers here who grew up speaking English,
ie acquiring English as their first language; though certainly it may be a
somewhat different variety from the English spoken in Britain or America.
 
In this respect, what is the currently accepted way of classifying
Singapore English?   In particular, is it possible to say that it is not a
native language given that some people have it as their first language?
 
Kia Sheng
 
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