Do you speak American? The article “Gatekeeping: Barring the Gates of Language” covers different points about language. Some main points it covers is how language can define your social status, your education and/or region. In the article it is explained that language is like your physical appearance and reflects social similarity in depending on the social group you are. The article also explained how in a tale of the Bible how shibboleth was used as a password because the enemy
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In Robert MacNeil’s insightful essay that accompanies his documentary “Do You Speak American,” he discusses the ongoing war on vocal language, and presents his readers with arguments from both a “Prescriptivist” and “Descriptivist” point of view. MacNeil ultimately sides with the latter and persuades his audience of Americans reluctant to language-change to accept, or at least recognize regional dialects other than their own. He uses historical illustrations to show how language has changed in the
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are five main ethnic groups Caucasians, Latinos, African America, Asian, and Native Americans. All of the ethnic groups are different when it comes to things such as education, poverty, religion and politics. However, at the same time a lot of the groups populate the same states, but stay away from almost the same states. To begin with I will start with the different education rates from groups. African American ethnic groups have a relatively high education rate from what they were in the 1900’s
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took it to heart. Just because people speak a language different ways, does not mean they are any less a part of that culture. This whole article is about recognizing the Chicano culture as being legitimate. That it is something to be proud of. A big argument in our American culture is whether American is English or English is American. There is no fact of this matter there is only many different opinions. My personal opinion is that English is American. When America was founded, it was Great
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(English) term or literal translation from Filipino words/phrases, which is not popularly known/accepted by some. It is a speech pattern commonly used by Filipinos when speaking English. This is English spoken using the Filipino speech pattern. Filipinos speak English using English words but think in terms of using their first language in context and structure resulting to a kind of English that is seemingly unintelligible. Objectives : * To define FILIPINISM/FILIPINOISM * To be familiar with
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Hispanic American Diversity ETH/125 Cultural Diversity For the assignment due this week I have had to do some research on Hispanic groups and learn more about their culture and more. In the following the political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions or statuses will be discussed shortly about the Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and ………… Mexican Americans are one of the fastest growing groups in the United States and for this reason they
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“Gatekeeping is an exercise of authority ..”(PBS).As a African American Female.I was raised to “speak right” ,and as I said before white is right in society.I know me saying this right now is petty or you may even see me as a different person,but I’ll rather be real with you then misguide you in this place we call world.I can recall a time when I called Wal-mart to check the status of my application.” Hi this is Doria Lee ,
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Khalid Al Mansuri Dr. Davidson LING 513 October 16, 2014 Outline I. Topic Gender and Number Agreement in the Oral Production of L1 Arabic Among Bilingual Arab-Americans. II. Thesis Statement This study investigates Arabic heritage speakers’ knowledge of gender and number agreement and concord morphology in two syntactic contexts; subject-verb agreement and noun-adjective agreement. Additionally, how does their dominant language (English) may affect
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means to be an American citizen. Americans may be different, but there are ways to identify the typical American. Some think the stereotypical way, this is not true. An American knows what is happening around the country, knows the language, and some might be soldiers. First of all, an American citizen might know what is happening around America. For instance, the latest, news, trends, and weather. Not all of us would know these, that is fine. But a majority of the Americans do. If you traveled to
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There are many types and forms of communication such as body language, hand gestures, brail, pictures, language, and sound. All of which allows the user to get some point across. The idea behind each one is to allow somebody else to understand what you need him or her to understand. Thus conveying a point or idea is paramount to understanding others. Unfortunately there are limitations in such deliverance of information. Namely the user and recipient must understand the type of communication. If one
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