Linguistic Society of America

Within sixteen months of her arrival in Boston, Wheatley was familiar with the language, imagery, and Puritan typology as well as linguistic and verbal abilities (Levernier). She lived in a predominantly white colonial society who viewed Africans and Native Americans as less and used Christianity to justify their behavior. Wheatley was prohibited by a racist society from publishing her true thoughts but with ambiguity and irony, it was possible to express her views indirectly. According to…

millions. my parents enrolled me in a local public school there, showing their intention for me to fit into the Chinese mainstreat society. I attended Chinese-langtuage kindergartens in Malayis,a but courses are nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a…

colonies for gold, the primary reasons for murdering the Aztecs and seizing their cities, and also, the decline in the native population serves as an example of what would happen to the other natives in the mainland. Chapter two of Colonial Latin America opens with the Conquest of Mexico, specifically with the line, “The conquest of Mexico gave substance to the Spaniards’ dreams of finding great wealth in the New World” . It also draws on the fact that Cortes used the different city-states to…

would be completely different. A thought I always had is, if someone did not know any language at all, were they able to logically think? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis suggests, “Language is a force in its own right, that it affects how individuals in a society perceive and conceive reality” (Ember 245). The English language was compared with Hopi. Whorf stated that the English language has discreetness in regards to time and space. The Hopi language does not. Hopi speaks of things going on as an…

use of linguistic styles, metaphors, and wide-ranging vocabulary widened the possibilities for poetic expressions during that time by using regional dialects and slang rather than the common language found in the 19th-century verse. Thought to be one of the first free verse poets, his exploits in poetry far transcended those…

The French is widely spoken language and dominated several fields, including, administrations, economy, media, education ... etc. Moreover, the thinking spread amongst our society considered French as the language of civilization, science, knowledge, evolution ... Whereas, the native languages are…

groups (“What Privilege”) Standard English has often been defined as the correct form of the English language. This is emphasized everywhere from public schools to mass media. In the United States it is viewed as the default dialect, providing a linguistic common ground for all speakers. Despite this Standard English is not grammatically or expressively superior to any other English dialect. Today, many English-speaking countries view Standard English as the superior or preferred dialect.…

on the Oakland resolution of 1996 and 1997. Regarding the discussion of this topic, we conclude that this resolution was completely inappropriate. This resolution had the purpose of unifying the African American English children with the rest of society. However, we saw how it encouraged a certain black supremacy, or white discrimination, that separated the two position even more. Furthermore, the information that this resolution shared lacked corroboration, as it misused terms such as “Ebonics”…

and figurative language which also allows poets to exaggerate or alter specific linguistic points of interest. The three poems that I shall be looking at for this discourse is I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Let America be America again with Langston Hughes and where the mind is without freedom by Rabindranath. I know why the caged bird sings…

their lack of hearing ability. These variations include level of hearing, how deafness occurred, age of onset, method(s) of communication, educational background, and cultural identity (National Association of the Deaf, n.d.). In the book Deaf in America: Voices…