Re: Textbook choices

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:
>
> > 2)  It focuses on English, and therefore makes discussion of
> > theoretical issues *easier*, since students don't need to interpret
> > data from "exotic" languages before the principle is uncovered.
>
> Does it also have examples from non-English languages?
>
> I like having both: examples in English so I can see what's going on with
> a familiar language, and then examples in other languages so I can learn
> how to apply what I've learned.  One of the things that I really disliked
> about Macaulay's _The Social Art_ was that it focused almost exclusively
> on English, and I wanted to know about how *other* languages worked, not
> just English.
Yes. The text itself doesn't contain many non-English examples or
problems, but the accompanying workbook is full of exercises from
less commonly encountered languages.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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