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[Harriet J. Ottenheimer]

Hi Ron,
Could you send me a .pdf also?  I'm always looking for good, readable 
articles for my Anth of Lg workbook/reader.
Thanks,
Harriet

Ronald Kephart wrote:
> On 7/10/08 1:23 PM, "Liz Ronkin" <liz.ronkin at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> Can anyone suggest a terrific reading on Sapir-Whorf (15 pages-ish) suitable
>> for very bright first-year undergraduates in Introduction to Cultural
>> Anthropology who have a mini-module on language and communication?
>> Thanks,
>> Maggie
>>     
>
> Maggie,
>
> You have "bright" and "first-year undergraduates" in the same sentence?
> Where is this, and can I get a job there?
>
> Anyways... Does this article have to explicitly mention Sapir and Whorf, or
> can be it on the theme of cultural relativity without doing so? I have in
> mind M. J. Hardman's article "The Sexist Circuits of English" which appeared
> in The Humanist (March/April 1996, pp.25-32). She introduces her notion of
> linguistic postulates in the context of comparing Jaqi languages like Aymara
> with English. It should be accessible for this level student, I think.
>
> I can send you a pdf of the article, if you'd like to have a look.
>
> Ron
>
>
>   

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