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1. War and Remembrance--The Navajo Code
Talkers
(Great
article for those interested in military history,
Native Americans,
cryptography.)
2. Navajo Code Talkers (2)
3. Navajo
Code Talkers (3)
4. "Tuning
in to Navajo: The Role of Radio in Native Language Maintenance."
5. "The Other Indian
Code
Talkers". The Comanche language in WW2 used in Europe.
7. Bilingual Education Trap: No English is no future for our kids.
(#8-11 comprise a series from the San Francisco Examiner)
8. Language Barriers: Only the Beginning?
9. Language Barriers: Schools struggle with shufting ethnic balance.
10. Language Barriers: Bridging the English gap.: Immigrants Put Teachers to the Test
11. Language Barriers: When language hinders learning. Immigrant Children a Unique Challenge to State.
12. Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strains Schools NYTimes August 2002
13. Should Bilingual Schooling Be
Silenced?
Critics Think So, Yet a New Study Shows That It Works.
14. Teacher's Emphasis on English Puts Her in the Center of Storm.
15. A Statement on Bilingual Education from Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
16. The Case Against Bilingual Education by Rosalie Pedalino Porter (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1998)
17. Calfornia educators struggle with the end of bilingual education (Christian Science Monitor)
18. Quebec's Premier Urges Separatists To Ease War on English Speakers (Christian Science Monitor)
19. Vote to Eliminate Bilingual Education In California Resonates Nationwide (Christian Science Monitor)
20. "Language"-- Excerpt from
"Immigration:
How it is affecting us."
(Nov. 1983, Atlantic Monthly. By James
Fallows.
21. California Still Debates Bilingual Education, NY Times article, 1998
22. In California: Increase in Test
Scores
Counters Dire Forecasts for Bilingual Ban,
NY Times,
August 2000
23. English as second language
growing
trend
in US Miami Herald 2001
24. Myths and Misconceptions
About Seconad Language Learning
26. KIDS, CREOLES, AND THE COCONUTS by David Berreby --Derek Bickerton plans to isolate little kids before they've learned any language to see if they'll invent one.
27. Reinventions of Human Language by Jared Diamond, Natural History Magazine
28. AFRO-LATIN AMERICA --Rediscovering
History
29. GULLAH: A VANISHING CULTURE
30. Four-part article entitled "Language and Identity," largely dealing with the Balkans and ex-Soviet Union.
31. The Language Gap --problems of Hispanics in California
32. Name Power: Taking Pride, and Control, in Defining Ourselves.
33. Language and Cultural Identity (UNESCO Courier)
34. Found
in Translation. Essay on bilingual authors.
37. Oakland Board Revises 'Ebonics'
Resolution.
38. 'Ebonics' Vote Puts Oakland in
Maelstrom.
39. Ebonics Tests Linguistic Definition
40. Slang or Language? Black English in
Oakland Schools.
41. Why Ebonics Is No Joke (radio interview)
42. White House Rejects Federal Aid for
Black English Courses
43. English Unique to Blacks Is
Officially
Recognized
44. Junk Science and the "Ebonics
Resolution
45. Suite for Ebony and Phonics
46. Ebonics in not the answer
47. Language and Minorities (deals
with problems of language minorities around the world)
48. The Berber minority in Algeria
49. New law to protect the Ainu population in Japan
50. Dying Languages -- good general
article, plus 4 others on the same general topic:
51. A modern vogue for more than a
brogue--article
on Irish Gaelic
52. Blueprints for Indian Education:
Languages and Cultures. (ERIC Digest)
53. Minority Languages in Russia
54. The Welsh Language
55. Preserving Language Diversity
56. Native Languages of South America
(UNESCO Courier)
57. The Livonian language. "Baltic’s
Onetime
Rulers Have Shrunk to a Handful"
58. Why Learn Irish? (Transcript from Lingua
Franca, Australian radio)
59. Language of the Gypsies (UNESCO Courier,
1984)
60. Yiddish. Transcript from Australian
radio "Lingua Franca".
Second
article about a Yiddish-language newspaper in New York City.
61. Proceedings of 1995 Bristol conference
on language conservation.
62. Woman saves lost
language
of California Indians
63. Retaining bilingual
education in Aboriginal schools in Australia
64. Native American
languages law 1
65. Native American
languages law 2
66. Aboriginal Language Rights in Australia 1
67. Aboriginal Language Rights in Australia 2
68. (empty)
69. Interview with David Crystal
70. National Languages and Cultural Identity
71. Language and Minorities
72. Status of Native American Language
Endangerment
add: What do you lose when you lose your
language?
add: UNESCO project
add: Maintaining Languages. What Works? What
Doesn't?
add: Global Forces Silence Ethnic Tongues
add: Seven Hypotheses of Language Loss
72. GENDER AND GOD. Women from All
Religions
Are Pressing for Equal Treatment
73. ADVERTISING TO THE "OTHER" CULTURE:
Women's
Use of Language and Language's Use of Women.
74. Sexism in English: A 1990s Update,
by Alleen Pace Nilsen
75. The Word According to Eve.
Cullen
Murphy explores the revolutionary implications of
feminism's counter
with religion.
76. "Gender and Sexism" on the French
Government's
decision to feminise gender.
77. "Against the
Theory
of Sexist Language".
78. "Gender and Language
Use". "...sociohistorical background addressing
communicative
styles ... with regard to gender."
79. Overview of Work
in
Gender and Language Variation
80. "What is Feminist
Linguistics?"
Short discussion from the "Ask a Linguist" section of the Linguistlist
internet site.
81. "Suppposed Sexism".
A short exchange off the internet.
82. "Mars and Venus".
Humorous, true (!) classroom example.
83. How not to make a
dictionary.
Microsoft blunders with its Spanish dictionary.
84. Two items on brain and
gender
(Also see 165, below: "Translating the Bible"--the last section. Click here.)
85. SHOULD ENGLISH BE THE LAW?
86. THE LANGUAGE CRUSADE What's Really Behind the Campaign for "Official English"?
87. ONE NATION, ONE LANGUAGE?
8ould Making English the Nation's Official Language Unite the Country
or Divide It?
88. LET'S MAKE ENGLISH OFFICIAL
89. ACLU Position paper on English as the
Official
Language of the US
90. Sample
of proposed bill for English as the Official Language
91. Bill
from the State of Missouri
92. Talk of Ages --A tiny bone
rekindles
arguments over the roots of speech and language
93. Voice in the Wilderness: How Humans
Acquired the Power of Speech
94. General article on language origins
95. The Mother Tongue by William F.
Allman, et al. On tracing the roots of language. (US News and World
Report)
96. Book Review of Derek Bickerton's
Language
and Species (in The Semiotic Review of Books).
97. In Click Languages,
an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients
98. Early Voices -- misc. items
98. The Dream of One International Tongue.
99. Embracing English: The World Is
on the Verge of Having a Common Tongue
100. English as an International Language.
101. English on the Internet.
102. Cultural Imperialism Aside, English
Spans Linguistic Gulfs (CS Monitor)
103. English Web Sites in France Flamed by
Language Police (Christian Science Monitor)
104. Europe's Language (The Economist)
Problems
of translating 11 official languages.
105. English
is the World Language (from the Financial Times)
106. What Global
Language?
(The
Atlantic Monthly, November 2000)
107. "The dominance
of English on the internet is set to decline as ...."
108. European Union
running into translation problems
109. Europe's
expansion
sparks fear of linguistic domination
136. "Multicultural Speech and Language
Development";
unsigned article from the webpage of the National Institutes of Health.
137. Article on the regeneration of brain
cells (Discover Magazine)
138. What is Aphasia? -unsigned article
from the webpage of the National Institutes of Health.
139. "Late Bloomer". A boy with only one
brain hemisphere upsets ideas about language acquisition. (Science
News)
140. Debunking the Digital Brain (from
Scientific American)
141. Speech and Language Therapy--Does it
work? (British Medical Journal)
142. Book Review of "Right hemisphere
and verbal communication".
(in The Semiotic Review
of Books). Very technical, but very informative.
143.Neuropsychological treatment of dyslexia
(Book Review)
144. Sex Differences in
the Brain. Men and women display patterns of behavioral and
cognitive
differences that reflect varying hormonal influences on brain
development.
(from Scientific American)
145. 2
articles on dyslexia
146. article 3
on dyslexia
193. On the modern resurrection of Hebrew
(Time
Magazine)
by Michael Spechter (NY Times, Dec. 4, 1997)
add: Language War in Quebec
add: That Word
add: Genie, The Wild Child
add: Cherokee syllabary