To recognize the historical fact that the United Sates has been an overwhelmingly English speaking nation since it was created and that its constitution and foundational documents are in English. 5. To recognize that while the people of the United States value and respect diversity, they want to preserve English as their common language and therefore immigrants have the responsibility to learn English. 6. To conform to the majority of the states (31) that already have made English their official language.
Anyways, a lot of my people came to America either by arrangement of reimbursement or as indentured slaves. The minority of my people paid their own fairs. My ancestry has a lot of pride in being Irish and my of them grew up in the ways of the Celtic People who later became known as the Gaels. The process of assimilation has also been helped along by the great migration in recent decades from their ethnics in the cities to the suburbs and rural regions of the United States You can find the history of my
Historical context pertains to logos, which appeal to the reader’s common sense and beliefs. This tool is important because it brings the reader to feel confident that English has been, and will continue to be, spread across the world. The author states specific examples in history that have promoted language growth and links them to the same factors pertaining to English. Crystal makes his point that "A language has traditionally become an international language for one chief reason: the power of its people- especially their political and military power." (355).
Irish immigrants left bad conditions in Europe to journey across the Atlantic to find jobs and build communities across America. While moving westward, many Irish Americans helped develop the nation through politics, inventions, music, literature, drama, and other areas of life. One of the most significant immigration movements was the Irish immigration
These people are best known for their culture, such as the things they did to thrive, and the things they did to come within an inch of death and still make it out alive. Imagine how many household objects exist only because they are English adaptations of Native American inventions. We have so many breakthroughs and inventions
For example, they were said to be ‘the best literary institution in the state’ by Horace Greeley (228). Along with many of the other colleges it seemed to be a self-sustaining village. Visitors claimed that it was like ‘a village more than a mere institution for educational purposes’ (229). One of the more sophisticated compliments that Santa Clara College received involved its educational success. Santa Clara College itself was able to claim to have ‘the largest number of Professors and Tutors connected with any institution on the Pacific Coast’ (230).
For to create some sort of dual linguistic society would change the scope of the moral cloth that makes Americans who we are. It is not without noting that the closeness we have forged as a country is very much because of the language we
Official Language Of The U.S. Roberto Dominguez English Comp II Professor Sipple October 17, 2011 Abstract The reason for my topic is to let people know that the United States should have their own official language, which should be English. My focus is to show how much the Unites States would benefit by making English the official language. I mention some sources on how it will benefit us and also how it has cost us to be a multilingual country by spending millions on services that comes in many languages. In countries all over the world have their own official language that most people talk in that certain country? If you go to France everyone talks French, if you go to Spain people speak Spanish, if you go to Germany everyone there speaks German.
A language is not a code for encoding pre-existent meanings. Rather, it is a conceptual, experiential and emotional world. Shifting from one language to another is not like shifting from one code to another to express a meaning expressible equally well in both these codes. Often, the very reason why a bilingual speaker shifts from one language to another is that the meaning that they want to express ‘belongs’ to the other language. This underlying motivation is particularly clear in the case of cultural key concepts like those encoded in the English words privacy, self-esteem or unfair, but it is also very clear in the case of expressive expressions such as, for example, interjections (cf.
English is also the dominant business language and it is necessary for people to speak English if they are to enter a global workforce. Many of the world’s top films, books and music are published and produced in English and not to mention more than 50% of the internet sites are in English, giving people are source of entertainment.