Language in the USA Part 7 pot

... instruction part of the time in their home languages, thus giving them access to the curricular content of school in language they already understood, and part of the time in English, providing ... students across the USA. From the beginning there was ideological opposition to bilingual education, however. This chapter documents the increasing debate that would end...

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... fascination with CMC, the processes in uencing the formation of new words and practices in CMC are subject to the same general principles that in uence language use and language change in other ... Latin American literature Chin, Frank 431 China, as source of laborers 248 The language of cyberspace 477 Suggestions for further readings and exploration Murray (1991) is the...

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... although certainly not all, idioms originating in the USA are known in other varieties as well. The older verb bite the dust (which appears in the OED) and the more recent be on the same page ... Spanish on the East Coast and the West); and Part 3, focusing on the sociolinguistic situation (including language ideology, language attitudes, slang, the language...

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... are those in the words thirty and down and those in the words wood and tooth.By contrast, the other vowels vary in the relationships within the four systems of figure 3-8, and the variation increases in ... of negating sentences with these markers, such as They be putting too much gumbo in that pot. The corresponding negative construction cannot be *They ben’t putting...

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... so that interested students can attain fluency or retain it in these languages, thereby getting high-school foreign language credit for studying them, offering their test scores in these languages ... district and one in which the high standard of living effectively limits the numbers of resident and incoming minorities speaking languages other than English. All of the children i...

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... affect whether languages decline or are maintained; the book focuses on the role of literacy in revitalization of languages. Matsumura (1998) samples the language situations in South America, India, the ... dichotomy in the USA, which may assign brother to one race and sister to another, while it ignores the culture of both. A comparison of the distinct in- migration...

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... ‘fresh corn’). The in uence of the Spanish and English languages on each other in the Southwest, on the other hand, is a continuous reality, although the direction of the in uence has changed: in the early ... of minority languages to undervalue their language, to underestimate their skills in the language, and view the majority language of the community as bei...

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... thousands) Participants (percent) Number (in thousands) % interested in taking ESL classes % not interested in taking ESL classes TOTAL 12, 078 11 10 ,77 7 28 72 Age 16 to 25 years 2,104 19 1 ,71 2 22 78 26 to 35 years 3,443 ... 34.5 58.1 34.5 17. 4 5 .7 4.9 5.4 32.8 41 .7 Average household income 46 ,78 0 50 ,71 3 50,3 67 59 ,77 7 41,311 36, 177 24,952 17, 198 26,304 40,342 39 ,...

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... “Chemotherapy sucks.” Because in the USA today most forms of social interaction, including language, have been moving in the direction of informality, the criterion of informality as a defining ... between these new coinages is in the situations in which they emerge – the landscape that the innovators are negotiating, and the social work that the innovations accompl...

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... sexism constrains (but does not determine) their use of language – is widely accepted by feminists. The feminist work of the 1 970 s was invaluable for bringing the issue of sexism in language to ... in the first Language in the USA because the field of language and gender studies was too young in 1980. Mary Bucholtz here contextualizes her discussion of the subj...

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