Linguistic Society of America

In 20th century China, political chaos dominated all aspects of society. The Chinese 1949 Communist Takeover forced many innocent citizens to relocate to America to escape persecution and turmoil. Among the many who immigrated was Amy Tan’s family, whose journey migrating sculpted themes in Tan’s writing. Tan’s firsthand experience in two settings allows her to fully immerse herself into both and present clear definitions between the two, exemplified in The Joy Luck Club, written to reflect her…

African slaves were first brought to America in 1619, and the slave trade continued until 1807 (Algeo 11). Because the South’s economy depended heavily on agriculture, the large plantations that the South was known for became one of the main hubs of slavery in American. The result was a fairly large African population. According to Algeo, “some 400,000 Africans had been forcibly settled in America” in the almost 200 years that it took for the slave trade to be abolished…

ethnography, “It is not the fish that discovers the water,” which recognizes the challenge of me as the fish to see the social world that surrounds me; ‘water’. Introspectively becoming that fish that does ‘discover’ the water that surround me in a socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never before heard outside the context of my immediate family. Passed down from generations matrilineally: Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Mother alike have recited two distinct…

In America, bilingual education is considered to be a controversial topic. Bilingual education can be anything from classroom instruction for those that have a native language other than English to secondary language classes in school. Making Bilingual Education mandatory in schools would be a great benefit to our society. Adding bilingual classes to the curriculum not only puts children at an advantage of different learning styles, but they become more culturally involved and they become a high…

not on the way to English.” With the population of the Spanish-speaking immigrant growing, the government makes it easy for them not to learn English by providing government funded interpreters and government forms in different languages. Because America does not have an official language, the government has to provide services in multiple languages. “We are creating classes of people who will never need to speak English and who will never learn it.”…

Nigeria, there are additionally significant indigenous Yoruba societies in Benin, Ghana, Togo and the Caribbean. A substantial proportion of Africans subjugated amid the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in the Americas figured out how to keep up the Yoruba otherworldly religion known as Aborisha. The origination and custom of Aborisha certainly presents a road to all persons of African ancestry, who were sufferers of slave exchange in the Americas or the Caribbean, to make claim to Yoruba…

English. Subtitles are used recurrently for multiple characters throughout the show, which differentiate it from any of the other shows that are or can be observed. It seems there is a rising attention brought to the struggle with southern dialects by the inclusion of these subtitles. For the viewer, it almost implies that southerners are backwards, uneducated, and are unable to communicate in the ways in which the general audience is able to communicate. It seems that the language barrier is…

many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America – they will be met." - He present the problems which are faced bu the United States, and tell the public that he will make changes in current position of the US.…

genre, we can better explain how the Latino culture is growing and how it makes up society. When we read to children from Latino Authors we can show children that their lives and related experiences matters. In the book, Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their World it states, “The intended outcome of this volume then is to create a heightened awareness of the cultural and linguistic capital held…

The culture of a society determine how its members communicate and interact with each other. The basic elements of culture is social structure, language, communication, religion, values and attitudes. The interaction between the elements affecting the local environment in which businesses operate. One of the element of culture is social structure. Each community will have a social structure as essentially. Social structures that determine the role of the individual in society, class position…