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Figure 12.3 Sound American! Accent reduction in Hawai’i Source: Photo by Patrick Cates. Reproduced by permission Hawai’ians at s ...

to ban a language which, on one end of the continuum, is mutually intelligible with English. Why? During extensive public debate ...

the simple expedient of substituting one language for another, we hope to neutralize social conflicts grounded in race, ethnicit ...

HC is primarily a spoken language and as such, anyone and everyone local can and does “talk story.” Moreover, in language commun ...

pass with maturity, like pimples or an obsession with loud music. As a language which typifies “good grammar gone to grief,” it ...

to the forces of subordination and assimilation. The University of Hawai’i requires that all undergraduates pass an oral English ...

Is Hawai’ian Creole a language? Be prepared to argue both sides. First, consider the short excerpt from Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s nove ...

3 The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921 contained a controversial definition of “Native Hawai’ians” (Kanaka Maoli) as person ...

9 In another state, this one in the Southwest where native speakers of Spanish and a number of Native American languages attend ...

10 One online resource for HC can be found at http://www.e- hawaii.com/pidgin. 11 YouTube provides an opportunity to experience ...

The Other in the Mirror 13 Immigration is still the greatest form of flattery. Jack Paar, comedian. attributed Without other, th ...

Figure 13.1 Population 10 and older unable to speak English well enough to be understood in ordinary conversation in the year 19 ...

Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, one of the first U.S. immigration laws, to exclude all people of Chinese orig ...

Figure 13.2 Total population by nativity and foreign region of birth for 2009, percent distribution Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ...

In reality, Miami has been a bilingual city for a long time. The Miami Herald is printed every day in both English and Spanish. ...

know, however, that 62.3 percent of the Spanish-speaking population speak Spanish at home. Second, there are preconceived notion ...

Department of Education. In fact, some people are willing to reject foreign accent in a public way when expectations about socia ...

It is crucial to remember that it is not all foreign accents, but only accent linked to skin that isn’t white, or which signals ...

opportunity. The costs of democracy, of assimilation, are not spelled out in the papers they must file to live here, but in the ...

Report to the class on what you learned about the culture and language ideology of the country in question. Most Americans feel ...