Politics and Prescriptivism (was Trudgill in Vocabula)

[Dennis R. Preston]

>That's funny; this is the same gibberish I read the first time.


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>Colleagues,
>
>I apologize for the previous post that was filled with gibberish. I
>don't know why that is happening from our email server here, but it
>isn't the first time.
>
>Here's what I said, addressed primarily to Dr. Fiske:
>
>I think I have some ideas about why and how prescriptivist views of
>grammar and liberal politics go together, and I'll be happy to write
>the article and submit it to Vocabula, if someone else hasn't
>already beaten me to it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim Hadley
>Texas Tech University

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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
e-mail: preston at msu.edu
phone: (517) 353-9290