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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 2 Jul 1997 to 3 Jul 1997

There are 10 messages totalling 511 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Seeking permission to post book announcements (fwd) (6)
 2. Problem processing mail file from Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM
 3. Apology fr. Mark Mandel
 4. JULY FOURTH SPECIAL: Uncle Sam (part one)
 5. JULY FOURTH SPECIAL: Uncle Sam Wants You (part two)

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Date:  Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:49:12 EDT
From:  Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>
Subject: Seeking permission to post book announcements (fwd)

Dear list members,

I received the following request to post book announcements on ADS-L
(titles relevant to ADS). As you may know, LINGUIST posts such
announcements. Before replying with a yes or no, I have decided to
forward the request to the list, which includes a sample.

Please reply with your opinion, yes or no. I guess we can have sort of a
running ballot on the issue.  Keep in mind that the purpose of the list
is scholarly. Such notices serve a scholarly purpose, but they also have
a commercial nature.

Terry Irons

>
> Dear Mr. Irons,
>
> We publish occasional new scholarly book titles which are relevant to the
> subscribers of ADS-L and would like to know if you will accept short
> announcements for posting. If so, please inform us of your guidelines.
>
> Our announcements would appear in the following format unless you specify a
> different one:
>
> ------------------
>
> DIALECT DEATH
> THE CASE OF BRULE SPANISH
> Charles E Holloway
> 1997 x, 220 pp. Studies in Bilingualism, 13
> US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 547 8 Price: $69.00
> Rest of the world: Cloth: 90 272 4119 8 Price: Hfl. 120,--
> John Benjamins Publishing web site: http://www.benjamins.com
> For further information via e-mail: service[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]benjamins.com
> The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island
> immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and
> around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish
> which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect
> is in the final stages of what is commonly known as "language death", the
> case of Brule Spanish presents an exciting opportunity to investigate
> commonly held assumptions regarding the structural changes often associated
> with vestigial languages. Its relative isolation from other dialects of
> Spanish for over two hundred years serves as a sort of linguistic "time
> capsule" which provides information that is relevant to critical
> outstanding issues in Hispanic dialectology and historical linguistics. In
> addition to examining these issues, documenting the specific
> characteristics of Brule Spanish, and comparing Brule Spanish with other
> modern Spanish dialects, this book presents a very accessible introduction
> to the field of language death.
>
> ------------------
>
> Thank you for your attention to this request.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tony Schiavo
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Anthony P. Schiavo Jr       Tel: (215) 836-1200
> Publicity/Marketing        Fax: (215) 836-1204
> John Benjamins North America    e-mail: tony[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]benjamins.com
> PO Box 27519
> Philadelphia PA 19118-0519
>
> Check out the John Benjamins web site:
> http://www.benjamins.com
>