2024: Svorkdal’s thesis on “Tkop Man Wawa”
For making me aware of today’s item, thanks to Lucas Damer, who I ran into in Chilliwack, BC this week at the 60th anniversary of the ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages).
A member of the Northern Chinook Jargon “language nest” (our group that meets on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm online) has written an honours thesis about the language, at the University of Victoria.
You can read his “Tkop Man Wawa: Settler Use of Chinook Jargon in the Post-Decline Period” for free.
I’m flattered to be cited… 😊
Thanks for this thesis, I look forward to reading this, and please pass along my congrats to the student, if possible. I did an honors thesis way back when, and it turned out to be a powerful influence on my life. It gave me a small measure of confidence that I could write something, anything, of interest to others in the field. And it persuaded a graduate program that I was the kind of obsessed, energetic student that they wanted in their program. (The thesis was 400 pages long. Poorly written and terribly repetitive. But I think the department admissions committee figured anyone willing to do 400 pages would also mow their lawns in summer, and shovel their driveway in winter–which I did for at least two of them.)
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