Language Barrier by Arthur Martori

Site: The College Times
Selected article: Language Barrier by Arthur Martori.
Address: http://www.ecollegetimes.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/09/440f6583caaee
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This text discusses about how a language can be an influence on citizen rights, in USA courts are conducted in English – the official language mandated by the Constitution and presents the claim that a program, presided over by Hispanic Judge Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, is actually a court segregated by race is not entirely accurate. It is a very interesting discussion.

The Last Bastion of PC Prejudice;.

Site: The Language Guy
Selected article: The Last Bastion of PC Prejudice.
Address: http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/2006/01/last-bastion-of-pc-prejudice.html
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: It is a blog about language; the post “The Last Bastion of PC Prejudice” specifically is very interesting because it provides a linguistic explanation for differents pronunciations and also criticizes the concept of "mispronunciation” associated with the language prejudice.

Language and Prejudice, by Hap Gilliland.

Site: Council for Indian Education
Selected article: Language and Prejudice, by Hap Gilliland.
Address: http://www.cie-mt.org/langpred.htm
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: It is a Manuscript Guideline, which list some words that are considered inappropriate for using. There is a list of terms that, according to them, must be eliminated from writing, this terms are followed by alternative words that are usually more appropriate and their resons for that. In this site we can observe The Native American Culture being an influence in language prejudice.

Stereotypes and Prejudices.

Site: The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers |
Selected article: Stereotypes and Prejudices.
Address: http://www.remember.org/guide/History.root.stereotypes.html
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: It is a very interesting guide for teachers that presents a useful discussion about prejudice, considering language prejudice one of the main reasons for one of the worse period of the Humans History, The Holocaust, the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis.

Debunking English-only Ideology: Bilingual Educators are Not the Enemy, by Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D.

Site: Debunking English-only Ideology: Bilingual Educators are Not the Enemy, by Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D.
Selected article: Debunking English-only Ideology: Bilingual Educators are Not the Enemy .
Address: http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Prop227/EngOnly.htm
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This text presents a useful study dicussing racism and language prejudice in USA.

Racism

Site: Racism
Selected article: Racism.pdf
Address: http://www.nzac.canterbury.ac.nz/docs/racism.pdf
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: It is an available academic e-text on the internet discussing the racism and the language prejudice in Australia and New Zealand.

Judges beware prejudiced language.

Site: Language in use
Selected article: Judges beware prejudiced language.
Address: http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/vocab1.html
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: Here we find an article about the ‘correct’ procedure in judgments, they present a list of words that must be avoid in a judgment and explain the reasons why these words can be misunderstood.

Prejudice won't fix immigration, by Dina Aplebby.

Site: delawareonline
Selected article: Prejudice won't fix immigration, by Dina Aplebby.
Address: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/OPINION08/606040301/1109/OPINION
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This is an article criticizing the prejudice against immigrants in USA also based in language, and it gives ‘ironic’ solutions for this problem.

Turkish Kurds seek language rights.

Site: Aljazeera.net
Selected article: Turkish Kurds seek language rights.
Address: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6D009D7E-C7E7-4CAC-80BA-A1BD54C3205B.htm
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This article discusses the prejudice against the Kurdish language according to th Salih Akin, a Kurdish academic: “The Kurdish language does not have any social prestige. People know that they cannot use it (Kurdish) in state institutions and in commerce but only at home, and thus do not send their children to private courses teaching the language"

btw, its tuff to communicate wit ur kid , by Kelly Kazek.

Site: The news Courier
Selected article: btw, its tuff to communicate wit ur kid , by Kelly Kazek.
Address: http://www.enewscourier.com/entertainment/cnhinspopculture_story_069113139.html?keyword=secondarystory
Category: Language Prejudice
Summary: This article presents the difficulty that older people have to understand the young people and the prejudice that sometimes they have against the new ‘web language’ using irony to criticize this language.

Language in India

Site: Language in India
Some selected articles: Language: Pride, Prejudice, and inferiority complex a panoramic View, by M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Address: http://www.languageinindia.com/march2002/langpride.html
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This site has a very interesting discussion about language prejudice presenting topics like: Together we develop Prejudices - A fact of Indian life!; The path of Pride, Prejudice, and Inferiority; Come, celebrate my language, not yours! - Language pride; So what? It's ok! - Language Inferiority; Don’t push me out, I know what you plan to do: Language prejudice and Pride, Prejudice, And Inferiority.

Foreign-language ballots could lose legal underpinning. by Lornet Turnbull.

Site: The Seattle Times
Selected article: Foreign-language ballots could lose legal underpinning. by Lornet Turnbull.
Address: Foreign-language ballots could lose legal underpinning
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This article discusses about the immigrants´ right to participate of the voting process, based on the fact if they really speak English or not, once this right is one of the most basic guarantees of U.S. citizenship.

Nigger and Caricatures

Site: Ferris State University
Some selected articles: Nigger and Caricatures, by Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Phillip Middleton, Professor of Languages and Literature, Ferris State University.
Address: http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/caricature/
Category: Language Prejudice.
Summary: This is a wonderful article discussing the prejudice that is imputed in the word ‘nigger’, it is very interesting and argumentative, and also presents a complete hystorical context.

Language Log

Site: Language Log
Some selected articles: Speak we proper English?; You say Nevada, I say Nevahda.; Mispronunciation -- or prejudice?; A new record for within-U.S. linguistic prejudice?
Address: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
Category: Language prejudice.
Summary: This Web site is a weblog created and maintained by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum
They create ironic posts and discuss language concepts presenting a critical point of view. Here there is a description of the book based on the site:
“Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum have collected some of their most insightful and amusing material from Language Log, the popular web site they founded. Often irreverent and hilarious, these brief essays take on many sacred cows, showing us—among many things—why Strunk & White is useless, how the College Board can’t identify sentence errors in the SAT, and what makes Dan Brown one of the worst prose stylists in the business.
There is plenty here to inspire deeper thoughts as well. Why do Pete Rose's statements fall short of saying “I’m sorry,” and can we learn how to apologize by analyzing his mistakes? Is there such a thing as mind-reading fatigue? What is the meaning of “pluralism” and “Yankeehood”?
Language Log is a site where serious professional linguists go to have fun. There's plenty of fun and plenty to get you thinking about language in new ways in this collection.”

Do you speak American?

Site: Do you speak American?
Some selected articles: Language Prejudice; They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City; The Distinctive Dialect of Chicano English.
Address: http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/
Category: Language prejudice.
Summary: This Web site, created and maintained by Macneil/Lehrer Productions, enables viewers to hear actual speech samples from across the United States.
This site is very interesting, here we can find studies about different aspects of language, they present articles based on academic texts and also suggests further reading for the topics. The language used in the articles is very simple and easy to understand. Indubitably it’s a great site about the topic.