7.1527, Qs: Imperatives, Lang of the blind, Clyne article

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1527. Tue Oct 29 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  132
 
Subject: 7.1527, Qs: Imperatives, Lang of the blind, Clyne article
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:32:47 EST
From:  kate at global2000.net (Kate Gladstone & Andrew Haber)
Subject:  Imperatives
 
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Date:  29 Oct 1996 14:53:58 GMT
From:  lnp6atcf at LUCS-MAC.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK ("A.T.C.Fox" )
Subject:   Language of the blind
 
3)
Date:  Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:02:32 +0100
From:  s-hilgen at uiuc.edu (Suzanne K. Hilgendorf)
Subject:  Q: searching for Clyne article
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:32:47 EST
From:  kate at global2000.net (Kate Gladstone & Andrew Haber)
Subject:  Imperatives
 
Does anyone know of a natural language in which the PRONOUN, not the
verb-form, changes to make a statement a command?
 
I should clarify that I do NOT mean a language like English where "you"
is replaced by -zero- to turn "You go" into "go", but a language in
which the pronoun would be replaced by a *different* pronoun
 
(as if English were to change "You go" into, say, "Koo go" to mean
"Go," or were to change "We go" into "Kee go" to mean "Let's go.")
 
 
Yours for better letters,
 
Kate Gladstone
Handwriting Repair
325 South Manning Boulevard
Albany, NY 12208-1731
 
518-482-6763
 
kate at global2000.net
 
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Date:  29 Oct 1996 14:53:58 GMT
From:  lnp6atcf at LUCS-MAC.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK ("A.T.C.Fox" )
Subject:   Language of the blind
 
Dear Linguist,
 
A blind student of mine is beginning a  study of the language of blind
people. This is a potentially  interesting  and fruitful topic:  blind
discourse lacks not only  visual interaction between speakers but also
the visually-based assumptions and presuppositions (for example, about
colour) of sighted   people. However, there  seems  to be very  little
literature on the  subject. Does anyone know  of any relevant books or
articles to which the student can be  directed?  (For obvious reasons,
the  student  is not   on e-mail,  but   the University of  Leeds  has
excellent  brailling  and recording services   for  blind students.) I
would be grateful for any suggestions.
 
Anthony Fox
 
a.t.c.fox at leeds.ac.uk
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Date:  Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:02:32 +0100
From:  s-hilgen at uiuc.edu (Suzanne K. Hilgendorf)
Subject:  Q: searching for Clyne article
 
 
I have been trying to acquire a copy of the following article for a
research project, with no success:
 
Clyne, Michael.  "Bilingualism of the elderly."  _Talanya_ 4 (1977):
45-65.
 
The reference is taken from the bibliography for Coupland, Coupland
and Giles _Language, Society and the Elderly_, yet I've been unable to
confirm it in any of the standard bibliographies (MLA, Bibl
Linguistic, etc).  Our library here does not carry the journal, and an
interlibrary loan request was unsuccessful - they were unable to
confirm the reference nor locate a copy of the journal.
 
Is there anyone out there who could confirm the reference or even
better send me a copy of the article (perhaps someone here in Germany
or Europe)?  I'd be happy to reimburse any expenses for photocopying
and postage.
 
Many thanks in advance,
Suzanne
 
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Suzanne K. Hilgendorf
PhD student                            Oktober 1995 - Dezember 1996:
Dept of Germanic Langs & Lits          Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie
University of Illinois                 Georg-August-Universitaet
Urbana, IL  61801-3675                 D-37073 Goettingen
USA                                    Deutschland
                                       tel.: ++49/551/48 75 68
s-hilgen at uiuc.edu
shilgen at uni-goettingen.de
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