Linguistic Society of America

Is Globalization the Main Cause of Inequality in America The main cause of inequality in America is becoming a popular question at that moment. According to this social issue, my sociology teacher Mr Kane left me many resources about the inequality in America and let me think about it. After that, Professor Kane also posted his idea which is on the blackboard, the main cause of inequality in America is globalization. However, I don’t agree this opinion. First of all, it is no doubt that…

When the first McDonald’s opened in 1955 in America, Singapore was not even an established nation yet. Little did we know that in the twentieth century, the golden arches of the McDonalds symbol would be more recognised than the Christian cross not only in Singapore but, also in various countries globally. Globalisation is a multi-layered phenomenon with many definitions. According to Piller & Pavlenko (2007, p.16), it consists of the flow of goods, capital, communication and people. Many of…

racially and considered non-whites inferior. (South Africa and the Global Game, 2010). During that time, non-white South Africans were left without equal rights compared to white people, and the access to opportunities as well as their participation in society was limited because of race. These protests marked a turning point for the civil rights movement in the United States, which produced one of well-known revolutionary movement. Nevertheless, after activists fought for many years,…

a wide range of audiences gives the text a dominant and famous position in society. To be intellectually and fundamentally captivating is what most texts in International Relations aim to achieve once published but only the intellectual landmark texts are recognised and acknowledged. Barack Obama, the new president at the time, delivered a speech at Cairo University in Egypt in some fashion. Undoubtedly, Obama’s linguistic use is very tasteful and versatile in which it could be said that his…

Suddenly, America has become extremely diverse, and with the array of languages forming from that, it would be unprecedented to think that every person can speak English. Two authors, Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez discuss the issues and challenges towards bilingualism. “The new bathroom policy at english high school “ by Martin Espada and “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez, each have opposing views on the same topics involving languages. Ranging from political issues to social/ family…

linguistically distinct regions of French Wallonia and Dutch Flanders only grew. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award, I will teach English, a politically neutral language in Belgium, to Belgian college students. I will communicate across linguistic and personal barriers, immerse myself in Belgian culture, and learn to advocate for Belgian-American cooperation on terrorism and many more issues in my future career as a lawyer focused on international relations and national security.…

people called the Nuer. Holtzman describes the Nuer in more detail as being agro-pastoralists and relying on a mixed economy of animal farming and cultivation in order to survive. They have been classified as members of both the Nilotic cultural and linguistic group. Nilotic significance to those who reside adjacent to the Nile River or to the Nile region of Africa. This cluster also contains the Luo and Turkana of Kenya, the Karimijong of Uganda, and the Dinka who the Nuer believe they diverged…

From the moment Columbus set foot on present-day America, the Native Americans have fought for the right to live. European-Americans came in with a lack of understanding and respect for Native American culture as they imposed their ideals on the Native American way of life. White society “saw everything in terms of freedom” to which Native Americans found no value in (Nerburn, 1994, p. 158). In turn, all white society can do to heal wounds, is to “give [freedom] back to [Native Americans] in the…

third of them in Africa), but scholars group them together into relatively few families - probably less than twenty. Languages are linked to each other by shared words or sounds or grammatical constructions. The theory is that the members of each linguistic group have descended from one language, a common ancestor. In many cases that original language is judged by the experts to have been spoken in surprisingly recent times - as little as a few thousand years ago.” (History of language) English…

Philippe Bourgois is an Anthropologist who, through extensive long-term participant observation, throws himself into the underbelly of contemporary American society. The dark, disturbing themes within his reality filled photo-ethnography, Righteous Dopefiend, attracted a wide audience. In ‘Righteous Dopefiend’ Bourgois and his research assistant Jeff Schonberg followed the lives of 24 homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in San Francisco over a period of 12 years. The ethnography was…