Linguistically Speaking

Saturday, 24. March 2007

The Problem with Loanwords...

...is that if you use them, you should use them correctly.

"[...] Sacks and Schegloff 1979 is slight and not well known. But in addition to its substantive interest, the paper offers an explicitly conversation-systemic, and so naturwissenschafter, argument that is general, straightforward, and simple enough [...]"

From: Moerman, Michael. 1988. Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis. University of Pennsylvania Press.
 
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