In today’s class, I distributed some possible topics for your fourth (and final) paper, which will be due on Wednesday, May 11. Â In case you missed class today, here are those topics: Topics for Paper #4 (due W 5/11 by email or to my office)
For this Wednesday 4/13 and Friday 4/15, please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy. 1999. Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English, Chap. 1 (‘Prescription and Standardisation’) and Chap. 2 (‘Standard English and the Complaint Tradition’). London: Routledge.
Due to an unforeseen family circumstance, I will have to cancel our class meeting for this Wednesday, April 6. This means that our next class meeting will not be until Friday, April 8. For then, please read Chap. 3 (‘ “Consensual” Searches’) of the Solan & Tiersma book Speaking of Crime, which was assigned for …
Here’s a PDF version of the handout from today’s guest lecture by Joan Nash, about signed languages and the history of signed language education: Myths about sign language
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