Diglossia Essays

Discrimination is an action or a decision that treats a man or a social affair gravely for reasons, for instance, their race, age or debilitate. It includes so many things like race/ethnicity, age, color, region, sex, employment and culture. Language is one of the discrimination types which I am going to describe. It is very important part of every culture, religion or country. It is a way of communication through which we all share our feelings to each other. Every country, religion or community

Here, in Spain, there is bilingualism in different autonomous communities, on account of two official languages, but in the case of the region of Valencia with the Valencian Language, we have a phenomenon called diglossia. Diglossia occurs when one of the two languages has a higher prestige or superior social privileges. It’s true that, by law, all official documents, as well as any information of interest of any public institution should appear in both languages, but

The Salem Witch Trial is a historically located incident stirred by the accusations of an Indian slave woman, named Tituba, who confessed to the practice of witchcraft under the pressure and physical force of colonial slave owners in 1692. She escaped execution, unlike many accused women, because of her ability to acclimate to the culture and society of her oppressors. In Breslaw’s portrait of Tituba’s life starting with her ambiguous Amerindian-Caribbean roots, she shows how Tituba’s first step

The globalisation of our world has accentuated the necessity for us to become global citizens; this can be achieved by studying languages, which enables us to interact with people from across the globe and equips us with the attributes of empathy and cultural awareness. I am currently studying A-Level French; a subject that I have a strong avidity for. My ardour for French has incentivised me to begin studying an AS-Level course in German this year, despite not having studied it at GCSE; a challenging

Islam faced many difficulties and hardship in spreading its knowledge, this problem had started long ago at the time of Prophet Muhammad PBUH and throughout the empire of his predecessor. The challenges faced by them in introducing message of Islam and in spreading the knowledge of Islam ‘ilm’ came to certain factors such as Culture, Language, Lifestyle, Social, Geographical Structure etc. However, in this 21 Century after 1407 years Islam had been professed by more than 1.8 billion which covered