Language and Linguistics in the News

• Sign Language and Deafness
  • "HANDS-ON LEARNING: Fingers do the talking to earn foreign language credits," JOHN MASSON
  • "Language Areas Of Brain Develop Without Hearing: Study of Deaf Yields Surprises," Susan Okie

• Ebonics
  • First Oakland School Board resolution, 12/18/96
  • Revised Oakland School Board resolution, 1/15/97

  • John R. Rickford, Stanford University
  • William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
    (See this site for William Labov's testimony on Ebonics given January 23rd before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education of the Senate Appropriations Committee.)

  • Centre for Studies of Language in Education, archive of print resources on Ebonics debate
  • Creolist archives: English

  • "Double Standards," Geoff Nunberg
  • "A different approach to teaching language," Atlanta Constitution - 1/9/97
  • "The Ebonics Debate," L. Rush from Psych Discourse, 28(2&3), 6

  • Linguistic Society of America resolution, also has additional links and references
  • A letter from some linguists

• Endangered Languages
  • "On the Trail of Disappearing Languages," Carolyn Battista
  • "TEACHER KEEPS LANGUAGE ALIVE AT INDIAN SCHOOL," Shoshana Hoose
  • "ASSIMILATION PUTS TRIBAL CULTURES AT LOSS FOR WORDS," Paul Salopek

• "Workings of Split Brain Challenge Notions of How Language Evolved," SANDRA BLAKESLEE

• "Phillyspeak," Jim Quinn