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Lara Cowell

"Do You Speak American?" - 1 views

www.pbs.org/speak

English dialect prescriptionist descriptionist American sociolinguistics African American Vernacular English etymology slang

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  • Lara Cowell on 06 Mar 13
     
    This webpage, associated with a 2005 PBS 3-hour program of the same name, addresses several Words R Us Related issues, including African American English, perspectives on written & spoken English, regional dialects, Spanish & Chicano English, communicative choices & linguistic style, prescriptionist vs. descriptionist philosophies towards language, etymology, and slang. It also has hyperlinks to various credible academic sources for applied linguistics.
Lara Cowell

Txtng Rules - 1 views

chronicle.com/...txtng-rules

texting communication language change descriptionism prescriptionism

shared by Lara Cowell on 08 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Lara Cowell on 08 Mar 13
     
    Anne Curzan, an English professor and linguist at the University of Michigan, examines texting from a descriptionist perspective. Curzan notes that that effective electronically-mediated communication (EMC) users have a shared system of rules and a detailed set of conventions that moves real-time conversation into written form.
joshualucero22

Today's Faux Pas, Tomorrow's Lingua Franca - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...eburger-espresso-expresso.html

language lingua franca

shared by joshualucero22 on 03 Mar 22 - No Cached
  • joshualucero22 on 03 Mar 22
     
    Goes over the misuse of language. This is relevant towards prescriptionist vs descriptionist debates from class
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