A paean to the city where I learned
This morning I just discovered a wonderful weekly-paper article on linguists’ analysis of native Philadelphian speech. I spent ten years in the Philly area, and I have to distort one of Jim Quinn’s sentences thus: Our dialect is so unique the University of Pennsylvania has had a whole department, led by William Labov, one of […]
Submissions in-box
I love having a separate submissions email address for EPAA But I wish it weren’t filled up more often with spam than articles. 25 deletions and counting this morning…
How to use variable-rate stuff in individual-level analyses?
Reading is the theme for me for the last week—reading student work, a minor truckload of submissions that came in recently for EPAA, and some other stuff. In about an hour, I’ll drive down to where my children are in the last chess tournament for the year, so there isn’t enough time to get into […]
Tennessee Board of Regents and ABOR
Yesterday, the Nashville Tennessean reported that the state Board of Regents would vote yesterday on a proposed student bill of rights. The McMinville, TN, Southern Standard reports that the Regents approved it. Unfortunately, I can’t find a follow-up article this morning on the Tennessean’s website (or on the websites of the dailies for Knoxville or […]
Disciplinary reading recommendations
By Sherman Dorn on December 6, 2005
Congrats to Margaret Soltan (aka University Diarist), whose Inside Higher Ed column today explores the nature of English as a field, or the lack thereof. It’s not my discipline, but I understand her concerns. History was in the midst of such consternation a while ago, or maybe it’s still there and I haven’t noticed. And […]
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