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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By Sherman Dorn on December 6, 2005
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 […]
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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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