Trudgill in Vocabula

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Sun Jun 15 17:23:07 UTC 2003


Does anyone subscribe to the Vocabula Review who is willing to share the
Trudgill article with us non-paying lurkers?  I'd like to read the article
but refuse to subscribe to this generally worthless "review"!

At 08:20 AM 6/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>In the June issue of The Vocabula Review -- now online -- Peter Trudgill
>takes on Mark Halpern.
>
>
>The Critical Reader Rebutted
>Trudgill Takes on Halpern
>
><A HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/index.asp">Converse Terms, Polysemy, and
>Respect for Nonstandard Dialects </A>
>
>Peter Trudgill
>
>
>I am puzzled by Mark Halpern's piece [<A
>HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/VRMay02Halpern.asp">Myth-Bashing as a
>Substitute for
>Thought</A>] attacking my chapter on lexical-semantic change in <A
>HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=thevocabulare-20&path=tg/detail/-/0140260234/qid%3D1055508691/sr%3D1-5">Language
>Myths,</A> and by
>his motivation for writing it. He agrees with me that it is inevitable and
>natural that languages change through time, but he seems not to share my
>respect
>for individuals who happen to be in the vanguard of any particular change at
>any one time.  ... More ...<A HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/index.asp">
></A>
><A HREF="www.vocabula.com">www.vocabula.com</A>
>
>
>
>
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