FW: Re: Female Sociolinguists

[Emma Moore]

I'm forwarding the following.

Best,
Emma.

-----Original Message-----
From: roula tsokalidou [mailto:tsokalid at pre.uth.gr]
Sent: 25 May 2005 09:54
To: e.moore at sheffield.ac.uk
Subject: Fw: Re: Female Sociolinguists

Dear Emma,
I tried to send the following message to the GALA list but I couldn't.
Could you please forward it for me? I would be very much interested in
your
comments.
Roula Tsokalidou
University of Thessaly, Greece

----- Original Message -----
From: "roula tsokalidou" <tsokalid at pre.uth.gr>
To: "List for the International Gender and Language Association"
<GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Female Sociolinguists


> Dear colleagues,
> your critique concerning the male dominance of the list of
sociolinguists
is essential.
> Sociolinguistics, of all sciences, should deal with gender related
> issues at all times, so that we can be true to the science we have
chosen
to study.
> My question is: How do we define an anglophone? ?Is it anyone who
writes
and
> speaks competently in English or a person who is a native speaker of
any
> English dialect? I think this sould also be addressed and defined for
the
> purposes of the dictionary.
> One suggestion: would it be possible to add to this dictionary a list
of
> sociolinguists who are competent users of English and study other
languages
> as well? Some Greek-speaking ones  have written articles in the
following
book:
>
> Georgakopoulou, A. & M. Spanaki (eds) (2001) A Reader in Greek
> Sociolinguistics-Studies in Modern Greek Language, Culture and
> Communication.  Oxford: Peter Lang.
> In Greece, leading scholars in issues of gender and language are
Theodosia
> Pavlidou & Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou.
>
> All the best,
> Roula Tsokalidou
> (a striving sociolinguist from Greece)
>