Author: Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Current Law Index
Author: The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico
Author: Amílcar Antonio BarretoPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 168340114X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that “Spanish only” was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools. This revised edition of The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico is updated with an emphasis on the dual arenas where the language controversy played out—Puerto Rico and the United States Congress—and includes new data on the connections between language and conflicting notions of American identity. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used these language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood.
Post-Imperial English
Author: Andrew W. ConradPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110872188
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide
Author: Vernon V. PalmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781541
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Approximately 150 million people worldwide live in legal systems in which there is both a common law and a civil law content, yet there has been little comparative study of the experience of these 'mixed jurisdictions'. Here, the author considers these jurisdictions in a comparative framework, which includes their founding and raisons d'être, as well as the cultural divisions of the jurists and the evolutionary tendencies of their common and civil law components. In addition, he examines the internal contradictions between Anglo-American judicial institutions, methodologies and procedures, and the substantive civil law. The book argues that the legal systems of such far-flung and diverse cultures as the Philippines, Quebec, Scotland and South Africa have many unique and fruitful points of comparison. The conclusion is that these mixed jurisdictions form a closely related 'Third Legal Family' with cohesive traits and tendencies.
Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico
Author: Colegio de Abogados de Puerto RicoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Language Problems & Language Planning
Author: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Author: Index to Legal Periodicals
Author: Eldon Revare JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Revista jurídica de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
Author: Compact of Permanent Union Between Puerto Rico and the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description