LANGUAGE USE AND GRAMMAR

In this work Dennis Baron tries to stir up some debates on issues of linguistic correctness.

LINGUISTIC PROTECTION IN ITALY

On the 26th November, 1999 the Italian Senate approved the bill 3366, Law on Linguistic Protection. The law was promulgated on December 15th, 1999, intending to protect the following languages and cultures in Italian territory

WHAT IS 'CORRECT' LANGUAGE?

What’s right or wrong about language, and who decides? Edward Finegan of the University of Southern California delineates the difference between the descriptivists, who simply say what’s going on, and the prescriptivists, who say the way it should be. Is English falling apart, or merely changing with the times?

IN DEFENSE OF BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE – ALDO REBELO

This is a report about the a bill proposed by a Brazilian member of the house of representatives, Aldo Rebelo, intending to restrict the use of “estrangeirismos” by Brazilian schools, media, etc.

“CULTA E DESPEDAÇADA”


Text published by the Brazilian writer, Cecília Prada in the magazine entitled “Revista Problemas Brasileiros”, nº 365, Sep/Oct. 2004. In this text Cecília talks about the bad usage of Brazilian Portuguese Language, assuming a position of language gatekeeper.

SURVIVING THE ENGLISH ONLY ASSALT: PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION - by James Crawford

Speech to the Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 16 November 1996.

LINGUISTIC INTOLERANCE

This text published on Brazilian magazine “Letras Magna” Iara Lucia Marcondes makes some considerations about “metalinguistic aspects” of Brazilian Portuguese language and also demonstrates the intolerance present in its discourse

THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION IMPACT ON LANGUAGE

This site presents how the technological revolution has changed the language and the impossibility of the language gatekeepers to avoid it

AMERICANS ARE RUINING ENGLISH

In this article the Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, John Algeo, investigates how both American and British English have evolved

BARRING THE GATES OF LANGUAGE

In this article John Fought explains the language gatekeepers intention of controlling ever-changing world of diversity, considering variation as error and decline.