Linguistic Society of America

Russ Rymer, distinguished author and freelance journalist, describes in his article Vanishing Voices the threat of a dominant culture in a region eliminating minority cultures and languages through the rapid rise of globalization and technology (Rymer, 2012, pg. 6). The minority population of second generation children in Canada and the United States also face a bicultural identity crisis as a result of being submerged in a different dominant culture in which their old heritage culture (HC)…

Annotated Bibliography Diamond, Linda Eve. "Ain 't: Used to Be." Vocabula Review. N.p., 05 Apr. 2010. Web. Linda Eve Diamond is a self-employed writer and the author of nine books on topics ranging from poetry to business and listening skills. Prior to writing freelance, she spent fifteen developing and delivering corporate training programs in the areas of personal performance, managerial skills, business writing, and interpersonal communications. In this article, Diamond discuses that in the…

Over the past century, the ‘mosaic’ and the ‘melting pot’ have emerged in North America as concepts to explain Canada and the United States’ relationship with immigration and cultural pluralism. Canada is often referred to as a mosaic due to its rich multiculturalism, while the US is considered a "Melting Pot". Like a mosaic, Canada celebrates and honors various cultural groups while the US wants citizens to "melt" and assimilate into one culture -- the American culture. In Canada,…

In regards to how Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin wrote their letters for the intended audience, this is an examination and critique of the linguistics behind these letters. It is going to show some the linguistic principles and incorporate the usage of phonetics, semantics and morphology throughout. Both letters were chosen due to how advice was distributed in the time of which the letters were written. Also the letters are written in what many scholars consider the earlier parts of…

when I had to fly to america, leaving my grandmother in India. Her few sentences before I left were "If you carry your childhood with you, you never will become older". This touched my heart and made me realize that I am growing older. My fears of moving to a new country with unfamiliar traditions and an eccentric society, was unimaginable. Along with that, my family and I faced a lot of challenges. The challenges for my parents was their perpetual chase for a job and the linguistic provocations…

cultures. Then, it brings a puzzle to the immigrant parents: should they Americanize their children? In my opinion, Americanizing their children is not a good choice because it’s difficult for them to find the sense of belonging in both culture and society. Instead, they should give their children the opportunities to learn about their own cultures and their native languages. In the past, Americanization is assimilation in the United States. It…

argued the negative impacts of immigrants, such as drug trafficking, threatening the American culture and overcrowding, immigrants have still contributed tremendously in American society. Immigrants cause an impact in our society economically, politically and culturally. People who are against immigrants migrating into America do not realize that immigrants benefit the economy. First…

I 've long held a desire to understand and help combat the mentally and emotionally detrimental aspects of our society and culture, It was born out of the death of my friend Aiden in high school He committed suicide after coming out as gay to his family, but not before his father threatened to disown him, his grandfather suggesting he join the Marines, his grandmother trying to "change his mind" with religion and his mother staying silent, he received everything except for what he truly needed,…

Madeleine Bell Per. 3 3.1 Unlike the Classical Era, trade networks in the post-Classical Era expanded in geographical range. They expanded due to the growth of trade in luxury goods such as silk and cotton textiles, the innovations in transportation and commercial technologies such as caravan organization, the use of a compass, larger ship designs,new forms of credit, and commercial infrastructures like the Grand Canal in China. 3.1.0.1 New technologies that accompanied these…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors in which minority characters are portrayed in the media. By discussing the key themes that pertains to the Netflix show Orange is The New Black, this paper will analyze the topic of identity and allowing for its application on a larger context that houses within the Structuralism perspective. Identity is an umbrella term to classify the broad categories of race, gender, religion, sexuality, and family/subcultural groups – all of these things…