Linguistic Society of America

they look at the remains of people and their civilization. In general, archaeologists recover material culture, such as buildings, tools, and other artifacts that are the residue of former societies through site excavation (Schuyler, Robert L., 1988). Archaeologists are interested in the organization of past societies, the manner in which people once made and used tools such as technology, how people thought about the world and each other, the nature of pre-modern environments, and the processes…

Linguistic diversity is a concept that has existed in the United States since the dawning of its history as a nation. At its conception, the framers deemed the need for lawful protection of language as an unnecessary endeavor, remaining silent on the subject. Nowhere in our Constitution did they reserve a designation for the English language as a symbol of the American identity (Crawford, 1992). The English Only movement did not become a major theme in America until the beginning…

and one with a lot of resentment. I’ve always been taught “Stop talking white, and you sound stupid talking like that.” I’ve always been the type of person to ask a lot of questions so my response would be simply what does it mean to talk white? Society has taken the word “proper” as a way to attract white culture. What does it mean to be proper? (Proper means to represent something done correctly or with satisfaction.) Now somebody tell me what does this mixed boy know about proper. I catch…

Topic 1 Participation Assignment 2 “What We Talk About When We Talk About Race in America” I found a lot of points within the discussions from all three guests that suggest systematic racism. However, Paul Butlers touched heavily on structural discrimination being found in our society including blacks being targeted by police, making less money, not having access to housing benefits, and being overlooked for jobs, mortgages, loans, and other opportunities more available to whites. Each guest…

Mona Alsolami Do You Speak America? Robert MacNeil took us on a very long and existing journey about the linguistic diversity in the United States. His aim through this journey is to explore English language and how people use it and what reasons affected the language. We all know that the formal spoken language in the United States is English language, but after watching this documentary our idea has changed. Thorough MacNeil’s journey, it is appeared that the situation is different and not…

Education When it comes to education, what does it mean to be educated and who decides how students in America receive it? In today’s educational society, there have been many issues that concern student’s views of public education and how it affects them academically and personally. The majority of American students do not always get the opportunity to sit for a while and reflect on the fundamentals that shape the educational system there in today. The essentials that will affect any student…

Copper’s focus in Mohicans is to show that linguistic power translates into a sort of disposition where America is made stronger through racial cultural inclusion. Cooper accomplishes this goal by separating the nature of each races and showing how they clash throughout the novel. Cooper describes that this war is one, “which…

„uncultured“ society and are therefore declared to be unauthentic and unaesthetic. Nevertheless the Afro-American literati did not remain silent. Expressing their anger and seeking for self-representation they described their memories in their autobiographies, which envolved to the so called slave narratives – a genuine literary genre combining the Euro-American culture of writing with the African oral cultures. In order to facilitate the communication amongst African slaves of different…

With the influence of English language and culture expanding all over the world, many people have strong views toward this trend. It is accepted that English plays a significant part for both society, and what’s more , a lot of attention is being drawn to the change of economy. However, whether the impact of English deserves such a concern , people have different ideas. And it leads considerable concern that it can produce positive effects in more than one way and it also can bring about…

TITLE Control language, control society, control reality. It was Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran who wrote in his book Anathemas and Admirations, “One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -- and no other.” This idea can be tied into the principles of linguistic relativity, a set of theories in which the structure of language is capable of influencing not only the foundations of society, but also the cognitive process of the speaker, thus…