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.
We did meet with Suzanne Christopher and discussed with her the characteristics of ASL that make it “non-English.” Ms. Christopher provided us with current research concerning ASL’s linguistic identity. After analyzing this research, we concluded that ASL has its own distinct grammar, morphology, modality, structure, syntax, markers, and idioms. It therefore meets the criterion by which CSU defines a language as foreign. (Not all sign languages meet the criterion, though ASL clearly does. For example, Signed Exact English cannot be considered a “non-English” language; it assigns a unique sign to each English word and uses standard English grammar and syntax.)
‘Kingly authority and identity do not go uncontested in Shakespeare’s IHenry IV. It is Falstaff and Hotspur who consistently resist monarchical order and pose different challenges to royal authority and to English unity or nationhood’. Argue for or against this statement, paying some attention to the ways in which Shakespeare represents Falstaff and Hotspur and their ideological function in the play in relation to Henry and Hal. Shakespeare’s IHenry IV deliberates on the resolve of a centralised monarchy, a monarchy born from the labours of: Machiavellian deceit; veiled identity; and regicide, to amalgamate different geographical regions, disparate cultures and competing political discourses into a unified nation who ‘march all one way’ (Shakespeare 2005, p.5). Employing a broad new historicist approach and referring to a cultural materialist reading strategy, this paper will argue that ‘it is Falstaff and Hotspur who consistently resist monarchical order and pose different challenges to royal authority’ and monarchical identity to determine that stagecraft and statecraft coalesce in Shakespeare’s play to offer the audience an alternative historiography to the conventional Elizabethan ‘world–picture’ where ‘English unity or nationhood’ was correlated with a hereditary divinely ordained legitimated monarchy.
Hopefully you will think twice next time you say it is nothing more than slang. It is a part of the English language and should be treated with just as much respect as the English language. Sources McWhorter, John. “The Word On the Street: Fact and Fable About American English,” Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1998 Bernstein, Basil. "Social Class and Linguistic Development: A Theory of Social Learning," Education, Economy, and Society, A. H. Halsey, ed., Glencoe: The Free Press, 1961, 288-314.
Sammie Burks Period. 1 Honors English 11 September 11th, 2013 Literary Term Handbook Diction Formal: Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words Own: the way a person speaks or writes by the words they choose to use Examples: 1. “That laid my goods now in the dust. Yes, so it was, and so ‘twas just” (Bradstreet 29). 2.
This pamphlet, written in simple english so the colonists could understand it, began to plant the seeds of the ideas of home rule. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence justified the secession of the thirteen colonies from the British Empire to other countries in the world. In the Preamble,
The fourth and last level relates to text in the English language, for the most part texting is related to a psychologist as nothing more than a group of related words linked to form of paragraph. Whereas, when a person accept a text they must first decode the message to interpret it. Language in Cognitive Psychology It is obvious that language has a great impact on the way an individual think. When an individual think of theories and dilemmas the concept of thinking consist of an individual mature language. Benjamin
Through any and every writing, an author has a point hidden within literary elements. With literary elements authors develop a style to their writing to prove the point they intended from the beginning. There are many various literary elements to make up a rhetorical situation, to develop a side of ideas, some very commonly used in especially rhetorical situations. Like allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, hypophora, and commonly simile. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau speak of and develop similar government opinions and points, through their interpretations of Civil Disobedience through literary elements; they prove similar points of civil disobedience but with their own style of writing and use of rhetorical devices.
“How could Puritans claim the land by “right of discovery” when it was already inhabited?” Roger Williams. He was protecting the natives as well as those Europeans who did not wish to conform to Puritan doctrine. “Natural men” as Williams called the native peoples, “should not, and could not be forced to the exercise of those holy ordinances of prayers and oaths.” This idea is similar of the conceptions of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others alike who reacted to the state-church power alliances in Europe by wanting to separate religion and its authority with secular authority in the designs for the United
Language is what makes us. The way we speak, and the reason we speak the way we speak is a huge part of our culture. The question should English be the only language spoken in the United States, is a very good argument. In this paper I will present pro’s and cons for each side of the argument. “1 Now the whole world had one language and a