John Hagge
Associate Professor
Department
of English,
Program in Linguistics, and
Program in Classical Studies
Iowa State
University
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| Purpose
of the Site |
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Welcome
to my Web site! I’ve designed it for anyone interested in access to material
relating to my teaching, research, and other professional activities at
Iowa State University. (And I’ve included a bit of personal information
as well.) But
the site has been designed specifically to serve as a clearinghouse for
information about the history and structure of the English language for
use by students, prospective and actual English teachers, and, for that
matter, anyone who’s interested in those twin topics. |
| Teaching |
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The
Teaching
Page is the heart of the site. Here can be found resources for my current
courses,
in the main on the history
and structure of English. These resources
include course descriptions, syllabi, bibliographies, and pages of useful
links. As the site develops, I hope that my students and I can add even
more helpful materials, including study guides, sets of discussion questions,
sample tests and quizzes, and especially further Web resources. |
| Research |
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Links
on the Research Page contain information on
my academic training, publications, and other rather boring matters. More
important, there are links to information on my current research obsession¾simplified
versions of English (which I call “amputated Englishes”) such as Basic
English, Caterpillar Fundamental English, and the like. |
| Service |
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For
what it’s worth, and for the sake, I guess, of completeness, I’ve included
a Service Page with an account¾mercifully
brief¾of
(what else?) my service work. |
| Personal |
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These
sorts of pages can be dogs. Someday mine will contain pictures of mine
(we have four). At the moment, go to the Personal
Page for some rather desultorily compiled links connected to my idiosyncratic
politics, oddball aesthetic interests, and nerdish hobbies, most of which
have (arguably) some vestigial intellectual content or connections to linguistics
and thus merit inclusion on an academic Web site.. |