Re: What good is linguistics? -Reply

[Darsie Bowden <dbowden@wppost.depaul.edu>]

I came from the same program as Jon Olson, and Ioved linguistics so
much I kept taking courses beyond the requirements.  Particularly helpful
to my teaching and research have been the socio- and
pyscho-linguistics courses that dealt with uses, users and contexts of
language, language acquisition, and philosophy of language.  One of the
best courses I took was Linguistics and Literacy, but I also found
Literacy and Orality very very useful when we try to help students move
from speech to writing.  These courses in linguistics, I feel, have
enriched my own background immeasurably, and I used stuff I learned all
the time in courses ranging from first-year writing to grad. courses in
teaching.  There is a lot of overlap to what we learn in "straight" (is that
possible?) comp/rhet. only the perspectives and readings are different
and use different approaches.

Darsie Bowden/DePaul University