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Show 152 the acquisition of non-Unguistic knowledge, and for other vehicles employed for the same end. Nevertheless, one would have to limit the number of such vehicles, ordering them, perhaps, in this way: maternal tongue, language of greater regional or national efficacy, and language of greater world utility. All educational policy which accepts this reasoning based on the maximization of diversity at the same time that it recognizes the inevitability of the factors of efficiency and utility, will accept the mentioned order. 1971 "Linguistics in 1970, Applied linguistics in a broad context,"America Indigena, pp. 499-511. In 1970, the mechanics of mass communication media has been perfected to the point of high level terrestrial satellites, transmitting news as it happens. Video-tape preserves for us an ever-increasing quantity of human communicative interaction. In such a world, the problems of communication intrude upon our every waking moment. In the world of 1970, this endowment, this equipment, and this government becomes ever more complex and their necessary interrelations ever more complicated. We find it impossible, therefore, to consider, in isolation one from another, the problems of language, those of culture, and those of social relations, as they relate to all of this communicative activity. The problems which will be of interst to us in this broad survey of applied linguistics, therefore, are those of the teaching and learning of languages. We shall consider them as vehicles of cultural acquisition and interchange, in the context of the full range of the ethnic and societal group-affiliations manifested by their speakers. Wolf, Eric R. y Jorgensen, Joseph G. "Antropologia en pos de guerra," America Indigena, XXXI No. 2 (April, 1971), pp. 429-449. English Summary: March 30th, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam transmitted to two members of the Ethics Committee of the American Anthropological Association a bundle of documents bearing on the involvement of social scientists in counterinsurgency efforts in Thailand. The documents were xerox copies of originals taken from the personal files of an anthropologist at a university in California. The two members of the Ethics Committee, Wolf and Jorgensen, appalled by what they read, decided to sound the alarm, in a statement which listed the papers and concluded: "Since these documents contradict in spirit and in letter the resolutions of the American Anthropological Association concerning clandestine and secret research, we feel that they raise the most serious issues for the scientific integrity |
