Linguistic Anthropology Digest V1 #524

[Ludmila Dutkova]

Hi --

try L. Holy (1996) The little Czech and the great Czech nation. National
identity and the post-comunist transformation of society. Cambridge: CUP.

May not be exactly what you are looking for but it might help.

Best, Lida

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Lida Dutkova
Assistant Professor in TESOL
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
School of Education rm. 210
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Office: (662) 915-7915
E-mail: ldutkova at olemiss.edu

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Linguistic Anthropology Digest wrote:

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> Linguistic Anthropology Digest Thursday, December 9 1999 Volume 01 : Number 524
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> language and identity in eastern europe
> Announcement: Alternatives to Chomsky meeting
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:32:55 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jonathan Lowell Larson <jllarson at umich.edu>
> Subject: language and identity in eastern europe
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> I'm looking for good references on language and identity in Eastern
> Europe. I've already come across material on the Balkans, and would like
> to find something particularly more about Central-Eastern Europe
> (especially Czech and Slovak Republics). Thank you for any suggestions!
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> Jonathan Larson
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> Graduate Program in Linguistic Anthropology
> University of Michigan
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:25:44 -0600
> From: bruce richman <brucerichman at hotmail.com> (by way of Jack Sidnell)
> Subject: Announcement: Alternatives to Chomsky meeting
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>                        ALTERNATIVES TO CHOMSKY
>           A NEW PARADIGM FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR A NEW MILLENIUM
> A Conference to be held on September 4, 2000 at Rutgers University
>       in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in association with the
>             Language Origins Society year 2000 meeting.
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>      The main obstacle that we have today to clearly understanding the
> nature and origins of language is the overly formalistic, anti-empirical,
> anti-historical influence of Chomsky's paradigm for doing linguistics.
>      It has become very clear in recent years that Chomsky's generative
> calculus model of linguistics has no relevance at all to anything about
> actual language.  It has also become clear that the main generative notion
> of the innateness of language is based on flimsy, non-existent evidence.
>      Despite this, and despite the fact that many people in many different
> fields are now actually studying real language in realisitic, empirical
> ways, and despite the fact that many people intuitively understand the
> emptiness of generative claims and practices, it still remains true, that to
> the world at large, Chomsky's theories are somehow considered an important
> "scientific breakthrough."
>      So, the time has come that those of us who want to start a new paradigm
> for language studies, who want to begin an empirical way of studying real
> language, should simply explain why the entire Chomskyan method must be
> thrown away.
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>      We are planning to invite 7 or 8 people from a wide range of fields to
> speak at our one-day seminar which will be held on Monday, September 4, just
> prior to the regular meetings of the Language Origins Society.  (LOS 2000
> will continue on through Saturday, September 9.)
>      If you are interested in participating please send a brief abstract of
> what you would like to present to:
>      Bruce Richman   e-mail brucerichman at hotmail.com
>                      3805 Woodridge Rd.
>                      Cleveland Hts., Ohio 44121
>                      216-381-7510
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