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retirement, continued to share his lessons and conclusions through lectures given throughout Canada and America. His creativity shined through his many co-authored books and original poems. Clayton Valli was as memorable as he was thoughtful and imaginative. He was truly a force of recognition to be reckoned with. In short, Clayton Valli was a poet of his time. With degrees in both linguistics and American Sign Language poetry, he was an influential writer, or, rather, an inspirational American…

“ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity.” (p.39) In other words, Anzaldúa notes to her readers that language is her identity. It is important in understanding that not only does Anzaldúa mention her ethnic identity but also her linguistic identity as well because the two concepts are interlinked. The language she speaks defines her cultural identity: So if you really want to hurt me, talk badly about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity — I am my…

environment on both narratives’ disparate manners of identity construction can be illustrated on how both narratives distinguish themselves from others in terms of being a foreigner. Roberts summarizes Hyun’s ambiguous position in both Korean and German societies, “ In Korea, he is a foreigner legally, In Germany, he is a foreigner emotionally.” (Roberts, 29) And Roberts also adds another fact to explain why the second generation of Korean-Germans are forceful to identify themselves as Koreans,…

so powerful, therefore, is that it is more than the dominant coloring; it operates as an unmarked human norm, and it is against this norm that other ethnicities are invited to measure themselves” (188). Storey is presenting the idea that because America is promoting and encouraging immigrants to understand our culture and language as the dominant one, it is then “unmarking” white from the list of ethnicities, and creating this illogical standard that our culture is superior. This is wrong in…

is “the study of what makes us human” (2016). Unsurprisingly, there are many ways in which anthropologists have attempted to do so and have broken anthropology into four subfields; Archeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology. The father of American anthropology, Franz Boas, introduced this four-field tradition through the amassing of holistic data collection through fieldwork expeditions. Although, each field has deepened our understanding of what…

and/or with Spanish origin. Hispanics was the term created by the Nixon government in 1960 to categories the large group of immigrants as “Hispanics.” Latinos are those who were born from Latin America countries; In other words, those that comes from Center America, The Caribbean Island and South America (Echeverria-Keck 2011). Latinos are people from Latin American and/or with Latin American origin. Someone could be Latino and not come from Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico,…

The linguistic reality in which languages are immersed, some languages become extinct for several reasons, I think one of the main causes is the increase of urban areas, which pollute the areas of small groups in which develop indigenous language, people are mean…

Bilingualism plays a major role in the lives of many children throughout the world. Especially, here in America, because this country is a country made up of immigrants and English is not the only language spoken, there are much more. Many researchers are interested in studying bilingualism in kids because they want to know, whether or not, they have difficulties developing in literature or society. Many researchers believe it can hold a child back from developing and others believe it will be…

lives to the attempt of understanding just a fraction of what composes the human race of today, as well as the path traveled to reach this point. Much of today’s anthropological achievements can be seen by looking at the fields of archeology and linguistic anthropology,…

It would be virtually impossible to have countries succeed without some form of communication. Thankfully, there has been 6,909 languages that have been created and widely spoken as of 2009 ("How Many Languages Are There in the World? | Linguistic Society of America"). If anything, the inhabitants of planet earth will continue with creating languages, but do not forget that some languages could possibly die off in the future due to lack of usage, hard understanding or any other further…