email, chat, online community, and linguistic anthropology

[Maggie Ronkin]

Dear listserv participants,

I apologize for information that I sent off-list to Jim appearing here. I
made an error in a personal email and corrected it in a off-list follow-up
e-mail. I also suggested that Jim might contact one author, but I certainly
did not mean to refer the author to an entire listserv in the way I referred
him to Jim. Finally, I had no idea that my suggestions would be
recontexualized in the way they were; I thought Jim was looking for material
to get his own students started. We often swap such info without worrying
about what is "foundational" discourse analysis, or ethnography (of
communication), or linguistic anthropology. I've received invaluable
off-list support from Jim and many other listserv participants this way. To
avoid future misunderstandings, may I suggest that people who intend to
summarize responses for the list and link responses to particular authors
make that clear? Thanks.

Maggie

>From: Jim Wilce <jim.wilce at nau.edu>
>To: linganth at cc.rochester.edu
>CC: tjc42 at dana.ucc.nau.edu, ruben.vasquez at nau.edu
>Subject: email, chat, online community, and linguistic anthropology
>Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:31:30 -0700
>
>Dear linganth listserve participants,
>
>This is a summary of responses I received to my query about email, chat,
>online community, and linguistic anthropology, augmented by a tiny bit of
>research on my own. I must say that it still seems to me there is no
>linguistic anthropology per se being done, but good ground work is being
>laid for us to build out on a foundation of discourse analysis and
>ethnography that IS being done.
>
>Best,
>
>Jim
>

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