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language, ideology and discrimination in the united states

Looking for examples of language focused discrimination

… from everyday life, as in the examples below. If you come across something,  please contact me  (link) with the information and/or link, if one is available. I will not use what you send me without consulting you, and you will remain anonymous unless you specifically request not to be. I’m especially interested in incidents [...]

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Sun, November 27 2011 » Looking for information, universities » No Comments

Princeton

There’s an editorial in a recent edition of The Princetonian pointing out that Princeton still does not have a linguistics department, but only a concentration. I did my graduate work at linguistics — at Princeton — some twenty years ago, I can affirm this is true. At that time linguistics was embedded in the German [...]

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Mon, November 14 2011 » universities » No Comments