NYT and SLA on Whorf

[Leila Monaghan]

If anyone does write to the NYT, make it short and sweet. 150 word letters  
are much more likely to published than longer ones although an op-ed piece  
might also be possible and those are considerably longer.

all best,

Leila



On Sep 1, 2010 11:36am, Elizabeth Anne Falconi <elifalco at umich.edu> wrote:
> Kit are you or anyone else planning to write a letter to the NYT Magazine  
> summarizing what you posted on the SLA blog? I was thinking it would be  
> useful to directly engage the claims Deutscher makes about Whorf and to  
> highlight the plethora of scholarship on this topic from our discipline  
> that he brushes over with such broad strokes.



> Best,

> Elizabeth Falconi







> Quoting Kathryn Woolard kwoolard at UCSD.EDU>:




> The recent New York Times magazine article on linguistic relativity is

> generating internet comment this week. Mindful of Bill Leap's and others'

> insightful comments on this listserv about doing our own PR work, I put

> together a little bibliographic post for the SLA website as a resource.  
> I've

> also sent the links to the article and SLA posting to the AAA PR officer,

> who has asked for information on members in the news.



> http://www.linguisticanthropology.org/2010/09/01/linguistic-relativity-whorf

> -linguistic-anthropology/



> This piece is just a start; I'm sure many of you have material and

> perspectives to add, which will be welcome.



> All best wishes,

> Kit