Thomas L. Clark English Department UNLV 89154

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu or BITnet tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada2



Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 10:21:55 PDT

From: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster POSTMASTER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu

Subject: Re: Methods VIII



Tom:

Hi! Just a quick word. I heard from Galen de

Wolf that you were not sure you were coming to the

Dialectology Conference here at UVic Aug.3-7. So, I

thought I'd entice you with the news that your old

golfing buddy - Henry J. Warkentyne, no less! - will

be here.

I'll be sending a closer-to-final programme

out, on this List, "real soon now": the main hold-up is

that I can not nail down whether our presenters from

Russia will actually make it here.

Anyhoo, love to see you here. In the meantime,

all the best, Tom.



Jimmy A.





Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 12:59:35 CDT

From: Barbara Need barbara[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SAPIR.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Address query



Can anyone tell me Peter Trudgill's snail-/e-mail address?

Thanx

Barbara Need

barbara[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]sapir.uchicago.edu



(Please answer directly to me rather than to the net.)



Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 14:23:50 -0600

From: Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]STAFF.TC.UMN.EDU

Subject: Re: African American foods



On 23 Jun 1993 12:11:26 -0500 (CDT), Salikoko Mufwene wrote:



I don't know what Dan's example demonstrates. Several ethnic restaurants

serve dishes that are not representative of the ethnic groups they claim to

represent; they may simply be items their customers like to order.

Salikoko Mufwene

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu



The bar claims to serve (at night) soul food cooked by a chef imported from

Chicago. It has a menu of soul food cooked by this chef. The menu

includes Polish sausage. In context, this implies that the Chicago version

of soul food includes Polish sausage -- not that they serve soul food, and

_also_ serve Polish sausage.



Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]staff.tc.umn.edu



Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 08:50:29 CDT

From: Salikoko Mufwene mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Re: African American foods



Well, Dan, I have checked here in Chicago. African Americans (with all the

dangers of this sweeping generalization) like to buy Polish sausage, though

this is not typically served in our local soul food restaurants. We live,

however, in a city with a very important Polish component, contributing to a

Chicagoan culture, if I may put it this way. African Americans from Chicago

also participate in this Chicagoan culture. Could the overlap of cultures

account for the phenomenon you have brought to our attention?

Now two questions: 1) Need African American culture be homogeneous and the

same everywhere there are African Americans? 2) What is the relation between

the variation I am suggesting here and the change I think you claimed in your

earlier observation? The empirical observation in itself has been very

informative, in any case.

Could you own conclusion in this last note be interpreted as 'the Minnesota

notion of soul food in Chicago includes Polish sausage'?

Sali(koko Mufwene)

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu



Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 09:03:49 -0400

From: "E.W. Schneider" EWSCHNEI[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ALF4.NGATE.UNI-REGENSBURG.D400.DE

Subject: New address



I`d like to inform those of you who know me that I am back on-line, with

an e-mail connection installed at my new University. You can now

reach me at EWSCHNEI[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ALF4.NGATE.UNI-REGENSBURG.DE.

Please note that the snail-mail address is also changing, as Germany

is introducing a wholly new system of zip codes, effective tomorrow

(July 1). My regular address is then: University of Regensburg, Institut

fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany.

Sorry I won`t be able to join y`all for Methods in Victoria (it's hard to

miss this one, especially after reading all the descriptions of the

magnificent scenery on the way there ...) Have a nice conference!

Edgar Schneider

Edgar W. Schneider

ewschnei[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]alf4.ngate.uni-regensburg.de

University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany

phone (int. line)-49-941-9433470

fax (int. line)-49-941-9434992



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