End of ADS-L Digest - 21 Dec 1993 to 22 Dec 1993

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Topics of the day:



 1. modren metathesis (6)

 2. Aches and Pains

 3. new words at MLA

 4. your paper



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Date:  Wed, 22 Dec 1993 22:34:55 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Sali--

    Having just read your note to Don, I can't really make heads nor tails

of it because of what I find to be totally confusing uses of the terms "code-

switching" and "code-mixing". All the more reason to deep-six the term

"mixing" which IS used pejoratively among almost any population of code-

switchers and the monolinguals around them who stigmatize what they are doing.

This a SERIOUS sociolinguistic issue. Social scientists are not living in a

social vacuum, and are responsible for the consequences of their actions. If

their jargon reinforces popular negative stereotypes, they should be aware of

this and change the jargon. It is NOT socially neutral, no matter how neutral

they may imagine themselves to be. It is as if the terminology of some

sociologists led to people in need being cut off from support and dying of

hunger, and having the sociologists declare that they were innocent because

they were "scientists". Being a scientist does not absolve one of social

responsibilities.

    --Rudy Troike