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Author : Katherine S. Flowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009278027
An inside look at the movement to make English the only official language in local communities around the US.
Author : Katherine S. Flowers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009278010
In communities across the US, people wrestle with which languages to use, and who gets to decide. Despite more than 67 million US residents using a language other than English at home, over half of the states in the US have successfully passed English-only policies. Drawing on archives and interviews, this book tells the origin story of the English-only movement, as well as the stories of contemporary language policy campaigns in four Maryland county governments, giving a rare glimpse into what motivates the people who most directly shape language policy in the US. It demonstrates that English-only policies grow from more local levels, rather than from nationalist ideologies, where they are downplayed as harmless community initiatives, but result in monolingual approaches to language remaining increasingly pervasive. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : D. Northrup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137303073
In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.
Author : Mark Shirk
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231554305
The state bounds politics: it constructs and enforces boundaries that separate what it controls from what lies outside its domain. However, states face a variety of threats that cross and challenge their geographical and conceptual boundaries. Transnational violent actors that transcend these boundaries also defy the state’s claims to political authority and legitimacy. Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. He considers a series of crises that plagued the state system in different eras: golden-age piracy in the eighteenth century, anarchist “propagandists of the deed” at the turn of the twentieth, and al-Qaeda in recent years. Shirk argues that states redraw conceptual boundaries, such as between “international” and “domestic,” to make sense of and defeat transnational threats. In response to forms of political violence that challenged boundaries, states developed creative responses that included new forms of control, surveillance, and rights. As a result, these responses gradually made and transformed the state and global order. Shirk draws on extensive archival research and interviews with policy makers and experts, and he explores the implications for understandings of state formation. Combining rich detail and theoretical insight, Making War on the World reveals the role of pirates, anarchists, and terrorists in shaping global order.
Author : Nathaniel G. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317009870
Long remembered chiefly for its modernist exhibitions on the South Bank in London, the 1951 Festival of Britain also showcased British artistic creativity in all its forms. In Tonic to the Nation, Nathaniel G. Lew tells the story of the English classical music and opera composed and revived for the Festival, and explores how these long-overlooked components of the Festival helped define English music in the post-war period. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Lew looks closely at the work of the newly chartered Arts Council of Great Britain, for whom the Festival of Britain provided the first chance to assert its authority over British culture. The Arts Council devised many musical programs for the Festival, including commissions of new concert works, a vast London Season of almost 200 concerts highlighting seven centuries of English musical creativity, and several schemes to commission and perform new operas. These projects were not merely directed at bringing audiences to hear new and old national music, but to share broader goals of framing the national repertory, negotiating between the conflicting demands of conservative and progressive tastes, and using music to forge new national definitions in a changed post-war world.
Author : Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,Carola Suárez-Orozco,Desirée Qin-Hilliard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135710019
This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.
Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459712
More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.
Author : Fred E. Jandt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781544383880
An Introduction to Intercultural Communication equips students with the knowledge and skills to be competent and confident intercultural communicators. Best-selling author Fred E. Jandt guides readers through key concepts and helps them connect intercultural competence to their own life experiences in order to enhance understanding. Employing his signature accessible writing style, Jandt presents balanced, up-to-date content in a way that readers find interesting and thought-provoking. The Tenth Edition gives increased attention to contemporary social issues in today’s global community such as gender identifications, social class identity, and immigration and refugees. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
Author : Thom Huebner,Kathryn Anne Davis,Joseph Lo Bianco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241236
In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenesis, and gender neutralization in American English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190940201
Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world and how the growth of major national and official languages is threatening the continued existence of smaller, minority languages. As individuals adopt new ways of speaking, many languages are disappearing, others are evolving into hybrid languages with distinctive new forms, and even long-established languages are experiencing significant change, with young speakers creating novel expressions and innovative pronunciations. Making use of a wide range of case studies selected from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, Andrew Simpson describes and explains key factors causing language variation and change which relate to societal structures and the expression of group and personal identity. The volume also examines how speakers' knowledge of language acts as an important force controlling access to education, advances in employment and the development of social status. Additional topics discussed in the volume focus on the global growth of English, gendered patterns of language use, and the influence of language on perception.
Author : E. Allen Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786457274
This updated, revised version of the important 1988 first edition ("must reading for anyone seriously probing religious pluralism in our society"--Theology Today) examines the complex relationship between American ideals and increasing religious diversity. In the past two decades, American religion has become more pluralistic and the central dynamic of welcoming versus rejecting religious diversity is even more prominent and nuanced. Explored here are two competing visions of the American Dream as it relates to religion: America as a pluralistic society shaped by its diversity, and America as an assimilative society in which people of all backgrounds become "American."
Author : John Bruce Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Education
ISBN : BL:A0019080989
Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UFL:30031002305414
Author : Dr. Rashmi Singh
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789389187878
Disha’s ESSENTIAL ENGLISH, true to its name, covers every essential topic and every essential type and pattern of MCQs asked in various competitive examinations conducted in India. It will serve as a SINGULAR VOLUME to provide complete preparation for scoring high in the English section of any competitive exam. Essential features of the book • Organised into IV parts: Grammar, Verbal Aptitude, RC & Para jumbles; Descriptive English - including 40 Chapters grouped under 10 Segments. • Grammar topics and sub-topics explained in an easy-to-understand manner. • Classroom Exercises to test and reinforce in-depth understanding of Concepts. • Extensive Exam pattern MCQs on each Topic to give you complete practice. • Dedicated Chapters for every specific MCQ pattern. • Things To Remember/Strategies To Employ for solving each Question Type. • 5000+ MCQs in all with Answers and Explanations. • Descriptive composition – Essay, Précis, Letter.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009845533