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Sexism In Teaching Spanish: Linguistic Discrimination Is Sometimes Unconscious, Aileen Dever 2012 Quinnipiac University

Sexism In Teaching Spanish: Linguistic Discrimination Is Sometimes Unconscious, Aileen Dever

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

The Spanish language is becoming more flexible in creating feminine forms for occupational names that correspond with the already existing masculine terms. However, there has been some resistance among Spaniards with regard to using feminine forms like física to refer to a physicist who is a woman. Similarly, there have been objections to química (chemist, chemistry), música (musician, music), and others because, some say, such terms are ambiguous and confusing with regard to the professions. Do words and the way they are used significantly affect their meaning? The author discusses this question by highlighting linguistic discrimination in Spanish that is …


Union Royale Belge De Sociétés De Football Association Asbl V. Jean-Marc Bosman: The Evolution Of Labor Law In Professional Soccer And Its Implication, Marvin Smith 2012 Pitzer College

Union Royale Belge De Sociétés De Football Association Asbl V. Jean-Marc Bosman: The Evolution Of Labor Law In Professional Soccer And Its Implication, Marvin Smith

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

No abstract provided.


Estudio Sociolinguistico De La Marca Diferencial De Objeto Directo (Dom) En Dos Variedades Del Espanol Contemporaneo, Sonia Balasch Rodriguez 2012 University of New Mexico

Estudio Sociolinguistico De La Marca Diferencial De Objeto Directo (Dom) En Dos Variedades Del Espanol Contemporaneo, Sonia Balasch Rodriguez

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This sociolinguistic-variationist investigation sheds light on two little-studied issues concerning Spanish DOM, or variable use of a before animate direct objects (DOs), in vernacular language: the complex interaction of co-occurring linguistic (type of verb; definiteness, specificity, grammatical number, topicality, type and syntactic position of DO) and social (speakers age, gender and occupation) features. The statistical analysis of over 1000 tokens of oral Spanish of Mérida, Venezuela, and Madrid, Spain, indicates that although a+OD is used more in Madrid (61% vs. 46%), both varieties show markedly parallel linguistic conditioning: the lexical effect of certain verbs (tener, ver, conocer, among others), as …


Graven Images, Amish Aesthetics, And The "Affirmative Lie", Laura Fair-Schulz 2012 Brigham Young University

Graven Images, Amish Aesthetics, And The "Affirmative Lie", Laura Fair-Schulz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

"Can I take your picture?" The answer was obvious, but it was a plumb opportunity to observe how the question would be received, Mr. Yoder merely replied, displaying a typical posture- of humility -practiced among the Amish (head slightly bowed but cocked sideways to maintain eye contact): "...we wouldn't appreciate that." There was nothing angry in his voice, denouncing the "worldliness" of the question, but a soft, rehearsed and purposeful tone.


Annual Report, 2012 Brigham Young University

Annual Report

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Nicholas Dungan, Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father, Mark G. Spencer 2012 Brigham Young University

Book Review: Nicholas Dungan, Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father, Mark G. Spencer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, 2012 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010): Historian And Anti-Nazi Activist, Mario Kessler 2012 Brigham Young University

Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010): Historian And Anti-Nazi Activist, Mario Kessler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The life of Ernst Engelberg, historian and anti-Nazi activist, spanned over a century. Born in Imperial Germany, he witnessed World War I, became a political activist during the Weimar Republic, was a refugee during Nazism, and became a leading historian in Communist East Germany, He survived the collapsed of the DDR and he lived for two more decades in the Federal Republic of Germany. Engelberg's itinerary is, therefore, not typical for a professor of history in twentieth-century Germany.


Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark 2012 University of New Mexico

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Like many Mexican Liberal intellectuals, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (b. Tixtla, Guerrero, 1834; d. San Remo, Italy, 1893) played a central role in defining the role that the mestizo—and, by force of circumstance, the Indian—would play in the formation of national identity after Mexicos independence from Spain. This dissertation examines Altamirano's literary and political works, as well as his personal correspondence, and his experiences as a soldier, educator, and politician, in order to understand how Altamirano, represented as an 'indio puro' who underwent the transformation to mestizo, exemplifies the link between Mexico's colonial past and its struggle to define its national …


Book Review: Wenn Du Absolut Nach Amerika Willst, So Gehe In Gottesnamen!: Erinnerungen An Den California Trail, John A. Sutter Und Den Goldrausch 1846-1849, Dwight Page 2012 Brigham Young University

Book Review: Wenn Du Absolut Nach Amerika Willst, So Gehe In Gottesnamen!: Erinnerungen An Den California Trail, John A. Sutter Und Den Goldrausch 1846-1849, Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Film Review, Axel Fair-Schulz 2012 Brigham Young University

Film Review, Axel Fair-Schulz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Ufnau An Island In Switzerland's Lake Zurich A Hamlet In The American State Of Texas, Martha Kumin-Jurt 2012 Brigham Young University

Ufnau An Island In Switzerland's Lake Zurich A Hamlet In The American State Of Texas, Martha Kumin-Jurt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Ufnau Island is a wonderfully quiet place that has kept its uniqueness and unspoilt nature, withstanding the turmoils of time. In 965 AD, Emperor Otto the Great gave the island and other estates bordering Lake Zurich to the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln. His wife, Empress Adelheid, was the grandchild of Reginlinde, the founder of the Ufnau church. We can assume that the Empress prompted her husband to make this donation.


Back Cover, 2012 Brigham Young University

Back Cover

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, 2012 Brigham Young University

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter, 2012 Brigham Young University

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Inside Cover, 2012 Brigham Young University

Inside Cover

The Bridge

No abstract provided.


The Reasons For This Book And How It Came To Be Published, Max Henius 2012 Brigham Young University

The Reasons For This Book And How It Came To Be Published, Max Henius

The Bridge

The appearance of this little book has come about primarily because of the Danish-born Americans’ Festival in the Rebild Hills this year. We have for some time wished to assemble representatives from all Danish American camps and communities in these United States and to meet at one spot within our country of origin. This year, for the first time, we will have managed to do that, as it has become more and more clear how little those of us from the old country know about each other, because we live so far apart, and we are thus unable to understand …


The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, P. Gøtke 2012 Brigham Young University

The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, P. Gøtke

The Bridge

I do not propose to write here a complete history of the Danish Church as it was established in America—the full story of the Danish Church in America has yet to arrive at its conclusion. Instead, I offer here a brief overview of the work of the church among the immigrants to the United States, drawing the attention of the readers of this book to particular points.


Young People’S Schools And Højskoler In The United States, J. Christian Bay 2012 Brigham Young University

Young People’S Schools And Højskoler In The United States, J. Christian Bay

The Bridge

It can be said that an organized effort to preserve Danish language and culture has existed here in America since the beginning of the seventies. The immigrants considered it essential that they develop plans to strengthen and design general education for young adults. Among the immigrants who immediately joined the Church right from the beginning, there were few academics. However, because many knew about the højskole concept in Denmark, this concept became the foundation for their church-sheltered schools.


The Danish Folk Society, J. S. Faaborg 2012 Brigham Young University

The Danish Folk Society, J. S. Faaborg

The Bridge

The “Danish Folk Society” was established in the spring of 1887. On April 18 of that year a public invitation was issued for the establishment of the society, and from April 18 till April 21 this year the society celebrated its 25th anniversary here in Clinton, Iowa. The celebration took place at the location where the idea got its start and where the plans were laid.


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