Never's Remedy

• The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer


• Describing Discourse: A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis by Nicola Woods


• Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology by Keith H. Basso

• Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Lingustics, Chapter 1: General Principles


• "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals" by Carol Cohn, published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society


• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, Chapters 1-3


• "A Linguistic Big Bang" by Lawrence Osborne, published in the NY Times


• "Chimp Talk Debate: Is It Really Language?" by George Johnson


• "Linguistic, Cultural and Cognitive Capacities of Bonobos" by Savage-Rumbaugh and Fields


• "Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications" by Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin, Chapter 11


• "Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community" by Elinor Keenan, published in Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking


• Native Language Preservation: A Reference Guide for Establishing Archives and Repositories by A.N.A.


• "After near-extinction, tribes are reviving Native languages" by Brendan McLaughlin, published in Colors NW Magazine, Aug. 2003


• "the political topography of Spanish and english: the view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood" by Bonnie Urciuoli, published in American Ethnologist, vol. 18 no.2, 1991


• "Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters" by Benjamin Bailey, published in Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, 2001


• English with an Accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green, 1997, Chapter 3


• "Language that dare not speak its name" by Geoffrey Pullum, published as commentary in Nature, vol 386, Mar. 1997


• "The African American Speech Community: Reality and Sociolinguistics" by Marcyliena H. Morgan


• Extract from Language and Woman's Place by Robin Lakoff, featured in A Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader, 1990


• "'Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?" by William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins, published in Language and Gender: A Reader, 1978


• Mythologies by Roland Barthes, 1970, pps. 9-10, 36-38

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"Why does Rabeya wear the full burqa?" I asked Fasiq while sitting on the roof. Blunt hanging from his lips, he closed up the Qur'an and placed it on his right. Took a hit before replying.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, she doesn't wear it for the notion that it's sunna, we know that much... and she doesn't wear it because her family is really strict... and I don't think she wears it for some Islamo-Feminist gesture.. So I don't know why --"

Fasiq interrupted me only with a suddenly active, alert silence that felt as though he would say something. He looked at me and said it.

"Ever have a bad day when you didn't want people looking at you?"

"Yeah," I replied, "I guess so. Is that why she wears it?"

"I don't know," he said with a puff and then dramatic exhale. "But that's why I'd wear it."

--The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight