scholarly journals English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Laurence
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Writing Genres ◽  
Factual Data

The inherent versatility exhibited in the various writing genres of talented linguist, Rosina Lippi-Green, is as remarkable as her seemingly random interest in quilting. Her ability to make connections with many things, in addition to fabric, is neither coincidental nor haphazard. It is far from surprising, therefore, that this independent scholar claiming “mixed European ancestry” utilizes three authorial guises: two for penning historical fiction and a third for academic writing endeavors, the most recent being English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States.Extensive documentation and factual data are but two persuasive means of support she utilizes to focus on and convince readers that the power of language upon social structures, especially in the discrimination and subordination of others, remains more strongly embedded than most people realize.

An Irishman in America: Irishness and Belonging in Roddy Doyle’s Oh, Play That Thing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Genoveffa Giambona ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel

The purpose of this article is to analyse Roddy Doyle’s representations of Irishness and Ireland in Oh, Play That Thing (2004). The novel is the second instalment in Doyle’s The Last Roundup Trilogy, a historical fiction describing the making of the Irish nation through the adventures and misadventures of Henry Smart, its protagonist. In the novel, constructions of Irishness are projected onto the outside world through Henry’s picaresque travels in the United States. The article examines how Irishness is constructed in the book and how it becomes intertwined with identity construction in other minority groups.

Unwanted

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Marinari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Unskilled Labor ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Citizen Activism

In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States. Many Americans of northern and western European ancestry regarded these newcomers as biologically and culturally inferior--unassimilable--and by 1924, the United States had instituted national origins quotas to curtail immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Weaving together political, social, and transnational history, Maddalena Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable. Strategic alliances among restrictionist legislators in Congress, a climate of anti-immigrant hysteria, and a fickle executive branch often left these immigrants with few options except to negotiate and accept political compromises. As they tested the limits of citizenship and citizen activism, however, the actors at the heart of Marinari’s story shaped the terms of debate around immigration in the United States in ways we still reckon with today.

English with an Accent: Language Ideology and Discrimination in the United States

Language ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walt Wolfram ◽  
Rosina Lippi-Green
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
The United States

Using Theory to Study Law: A Company Law Perspective

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Cheffins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

IN the United States, theorising about law has flourished. There has been an increase in the “market share” of theoretically oriented articles in leading law reviews, a proliferation of specialised journals devoted to interdisciplinary approaches to law and much more frequent citation of theoretical scholarship in legal literature. The interdisciplinary movement in legal thought has prompted a strong backlash. Fears have been expressed that “impractical” scholars are doing the legal profession and law students a disservice by pursuing “abstract” theory at the expense of engaging in analysis of legal doctrine.Interdisciplinary scholarship is growing in prominence in Britain. If this trend continues, the experience in the United States suggests that concerns could arise about the practical value of academic law, both inside and outside the classroom. As a result, this is a suitable occasion to assess whether theoretical analysis can make a valuable contribution both with respect to research and teaching. This essay advances the thesis that thinking about law in interdisciplinary terms has a beneficial influence on academic writing and should lead to improvements in the classroom. The case in favour of the use of theory is set out in general terms and is then illustrated by considering a field often thought to be primarily technical and “vocational” in nature, namely company law.

Voluntary Medical Care Insurance in the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-574
Author(s):  
PAUL HARPER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Optimum Conditions ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Public Aid ◽  
Factual Data ◽  
Conditions Of Employment ◽  
Great Mass

The author has brought together in this book a great mass of factual data. Medical care insurance is defined as a device for pooling risks and resources against the economic hazards of sickness, injury and maternity. Pooling of risks is feasible only for people able to make regular contributions; even under optimum conditions of employment and income there is a segment of the population who have to depend upon public aid for maintenance and for medical care. There is a larger group of self-supporting individuals and families with many children who can pay only a limited amount toward the full cost of adequate medical care insurance. In periods of depression this group is bound to increase.

Understanding Brazilian Administrative Law, the Related Literature, and Education: A Comparison with the System in the United States

ICL Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emerson Gabardo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
The Public ◽  
System 2 ◽  
Typical Subject ◽  
Initial Research

AbstractThis paper presents research on a typical subject in comparative law: doctrinal thinking about (and teaching methods for) administrative law in Brazil and the United States. The paper’s initial research hypotheses are as follows: 1) in contrast to the United States, in Brazil, legal scholarship (legal academic writing) has significantly influenced the construction of the theoretical principles that form the basis of the public administration system; 2) the Brazilian understanding of administrative legal scholarship is distinct from that of the United States regarding several specific but representative issues; 3) in Brazil, administrative law textbooks and monographs focus on general principles and direct state intervention, whereas in the United States, administrative law education focuses on regulatory issues; and 4) regulatory (and policy or decision-making) concepts are more complex than they initially appear. These initial hypotheses will either be confirmed or refuted at the end of the study. The methodological research scope is an analysis of the study, teaching, and theoretical approach to the science of administrative law through a comparison of the two systems. The conclusions aim to assist legal researchers in both countries by broadening the understanding of the differences in meaning between apparently similar institutions and expressions while analyzing relevant semiological differences. Therefore, the paper does not represent an analysis of the particular legal systems but instead offers a methodology for understanding the two jurisdictions under consideration.

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