22.86, Qs: Reading Suggestions: Introductory Linguistics

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Subject: 22.86, Qs: Reading Suggestions: Introductory Linguistics

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Date: 04-Jan-2011
From: Johanna Rubba [jrubba at calpoly.edu]
Subject: Reading Suggestions: Introductory Linguistics
 

	
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:08:14
From: Johanna Rubba [jrubba at calpoly.edu]
Subject: Reading Suggestions: Introductory Linguistics

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Hello, everyone,

I would like to compile a list of shortish readings about language for my 
introduction to linguistics students (and perhaps for use in other courses, as 
well). Of course, I would like them to be linguistically sound. The topics
should be ones that would interest the general reader who is in the process
of gaining new insights and new information about language. The articles 
should be accessible to the general reader. The length I have in mind is, say, 
the typical length of a New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly feature article. It 
would be helpful if the articles were accessible full-text online, including 
through library databases. Some examples I can think of from my own reading
habits include a NYer article about Dan Everett's work on Pirahã, an Atl.
Monthly one about growing official-language movements for Celtic languages
in England, something somewhere about language evolution, something
somewhere about language in Neanderthals -- so the topic range is pretty
wide open. They don't have to be recent, as long as the content is 
sound.

Newspaper articles would be too short. But if you have some that have a 
reference to a longer work, it would be helpful to pass that on.

If you have some in mind, could you send along the bibliographic information 
plus a very short summary of the article (1-3 sentences)?

I will post a summary of my responses to the list.

Thank you, and Happy 2011 to you all!

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Ph. D.
Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Dept.
Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Ofc. tel. : 805-756-2184
Dept. tel.: 805-756-2596
Dept. fax: 805-756-6374
E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu
URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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