P.S. Gender linguistics

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

7 Nov. 99

The article by Dreizin and Priestly is indeed important.  I refer to it in
my _Signs of the Flesh_ (Indiana University Press, 1992, 226) and in _The
Slave Soul of Russia_ (NYU Press, 1995, 140).  Generally speaking, the work
of the late Felix Dreizin has been neglected, especially his book _The
Russian Soul and the Jew_ (University Press of America, 1990).

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
University of California, Davis


At 07:50 AM 11/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Ursula,
>I printed out and had a quick look at your chapter. Extremely interesting .
>. . it will need close reading.
>But in pasing my eye stopped at section 6.2. and was disappointed (very
>slightly) to see that the article
>F. Dreizin & T. Priestly,  "A systematic approach to Russian obscene
>language," Russian Linguistics 6: 233-249, 1982
>was not mentioned. - This was Feliks Dreizin's work: I just helped out as a
>very "junior" author (I helped him organize his thoughts in a few areas,
>and tidied up his English). So if you wish to be critical, I shall not mind
>*at all*. Nevertheless, having *never* had any reasctions to this article,
>I would very much like to know what you think. Did you not mention it
>deliberately? Or perhaps you never saw it? I shall be *very* grateful for
>your honest opinion.
>Maybe one of our (Feliks's and my) conclusions - that *mat* can be used in
>*any* context, given volition - tends to negate some of your arguments? I
>wonder.
>Tom
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