Linguistic Society of America

In modern society, English transcends its native countries and has become one of the most prominent language for communications all around the globe. For all humans, communications plays a huge role in life. The United States is so strongly monolinguistic, it has never had a need to learn and appreciate other foreign languages. Thousands of languages are spoken across the planet, some more similar or different than others. As our country increasingly globalizes, we need to extend beyond English.…

mother’s struggles and aspirations. The mother speaks to her son in an intimate language, vernacular, with broken structure and double negatives, giving a truer idea of how mothers give encouragement to sons in the Harlem Renaissance time in the African America culture. Langston Hughes combines his literary skills to create “Mother to Son,” a poetic work that interprets a mother’s advice to her son through comparisons, figurative language, and…

the stronger their mental stamina. Teachers and parents of ESL students must encourage children to retain the ability to speak their native language in addition to achieving fluency in English. Bilingualism has powerful advantages in academic, linguistic, personal, occupational, etc. Finally, it is most important to remember that this is not a flimsy extracurricular activity but rather a necessity for children who do not speak…

in order to survive. Thus, the Spanish colonists of the Dominican switched to cattle ranching, thus setting the foundation for the unique, hybridized racial identity in contemporary society. With the onset of cattle ranching came the loss of the strict distinction between master slave, as was present in Haiti’s society during the time. “There was very little difference between the master and the slave, they were both riding horses, they were both wearing machetes…” Just as vudou formed a sense…

There should be more paths available for students to achieve academic goal other than college. Society should meet different people’s utility without a single approach. Society requirement restricted student’s options to explore other valuable things they can do as well. In all honesty, students should pursuit to learn things they like but not to force them to do so. Opportunities to…

power via hegemonic means, and is used in a multiplicity of domains. This paper presents an exploratory qualitative and quantitative study documenting the linguistic methods by which second generation Argentineans maintain the Spanish language and reveals major factors which are successful in Spanish language maintenance in an English-dominant society.…

political intention. Firstly, the teaching profession as a whole and its relationship with political ideologies is will be discussed. Then, the focus will be put on the politicalness of TESOL education in both in English-dominant societies and non-English-dominant societies. Maclure (1976) stated that “education cannot be taken out of politics”.…

Extant resources have investigated the implications of immigration in the United States of America. Some of the researches assert that immigrants positively contribute to the country because they enrich the states with human capital, talent and expansion of the market. However, there are several other publications that have propose that there are more harm than good associated with mass immigration of foreigners in the U.S.A. These vices include tax evasion, over utilization of public amenities,…

William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and his life did not seem like it would be destined for success in any way. He came from a poor family and he himself only had a grammar school education. He began his stardom Per (Shakespeare in America stated) “In a 1592 pamphlet by Robert Greene, Shakespeare reappears as an “upstart crow” flapping his poetic wings in London. Evidently, it did not take him long to land on the stage. Between 1590 and 1592, Shakespeare's Henry VI series, Richard III, and…

clip of the Daily Show which discussed about the criminal justice reform(October 8th 2015 episode, Trevor Noah). Parodic polyglossia, defined by Waisanen in his articleI A Citizen’s Guides to Democracy Inaction, is “the sheer degree of expanded linguistic and vocal capacities that Stewart and Colbert push in their perspectives by incongruity”. In fact, the whole show can actually be viewed as using parodic polyglossia. It keeps using a comedic tone to analyze news which are narrated in more…