Language contact in the US Southeast

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip P. Limerick
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Southeastern Us ◽  
The Us ◽  
Subject Expression

Abstract This study examines the use of subject pronouns among Spanish speakers in the Southeastern US and explores the incipient stages of language contact through a case study of speakers in Roswell, Georgia, an emergent (recently developing) variety that thus far has rarely been studied in the literature. Sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in Roswell (Wilson 2013) and transcribed to allow for analysis of pronouns and factors that may influence subject expression (e.g. person/number) as well as social variables (e.g. length of residency). Results indicate an overall pronoun rate of 21%, similar to that of Mainland newcomers in New York (Otheguy, Zentella, and Livert 2007). However, results from the multivariate analysis suggest that pronoun usage in Roswell diverges from these communities, with differential effects observed for factors such as Coreferentiality Index (subject continuity). This analysis of subject expression reveals an intermediate stage of language shift in this particular community.

US Financial Crisis Critique and the Statistical Predictability of a NYSE Portfolio

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Gerry Wymar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Complex Polynomial ◽  
Portfolio Performance ◽  
The Us ◽  
Market Indexes ◽  
Stock Portfolio ◽  
Us Financial Crisis

This study’s purpose is to review investment practitioner accounts describing the causes and effects of the global financial crises, with a focus of the US financial crisis. A critical gap in the literature was found: the lack of an independent indicator that could do forecast a market upturn or downturn at least a week in advance to provide sufficient lead time for hedging a stock portfolio before a crash. A sample of 95 high performing companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was used as a multiyear case study. Publicly available market indexes such as Mood’s, Standards and Poor’s (S&P, and others, were tested as independent factors to explain the behavior of the case study stock portfolio performance. Correlation, regression (simple, multiple, stepwise, surface response) and ANOVA (with T-tests) were used to analyze 817 days of returns during the 2008-2011 period of the US financial crisis. A complex polynomial nonlinear equation was developed which could predict the behavior of the case study portfolio five days in advance.

Perceptions, motivators and barriers of using city management applications among citizens: a focus group approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Annis ◽  
Jinghui (Jove) Hou ◽  
Tian Tang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
City Management ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current Technology ◽  
Southeastern Us ◽  
The Us ◽  
Citizen Perceptions

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand citizens' perceptions of smartphone-based city management apps and to identify facilitators and barriers that influence app adoption and use. An aim is to identify how current technology adoption theories might be expanded and enriched for studying citizen adoption of city apps in the US.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a qualitative exploratory case study of citizen perceptions of city management apps in Tallahassee, a top-ranked digital city in the southeastern United States. The authors derive empirical data from focus group discussions with citizens using thematic analysis.FindingsOverall, the findings suggest that city management apps are primarily perceived and used by citizens as handy and efficient tools for the provision of information and public services. The findings suggest that current technology adoption and use models applied to citizen adoption of m-government may benefit by being expanded for the US context.Originality/valueThis paper highlights what factors of m-government technology are effective, useful or inhibiting in citizens' lives from the perspective of a group of citizens in the southeastern US. Implications that might be learned for researchers and practitioners are discussed.

Earl Grey’s Public Diplomacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bowman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Fishing Rights ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
The North Atlantic

This chapter focuses on the banquet held by the New York branch of the Pilgrims Society in March 1906 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for Earl Grey, the Governor General of Canada. This dinner provides a case study of the ways in which the Society served as a network for British and American diplomats and provides one of the clearest examples of its public diplomacy activities. The banquet was held during a dispute between Britain, Canada, and the United States over fishing rights in the North Atlantic and the speeches given at the dinner by Earl Grey and Elihu Root, the US Secretary of State, were designed to mobilise public opinion in an effort to bring the dispute to an amicable end. Part of this public diplomacy effort was Earl Grey’s heavily-publicised gift to the US of a portrait of Benjamin Franklin that had been in his family’s possession since the American Revolution. The rhetoric surrounding this gift provides evidence about the cultural assumptions underpinning the Pilgrims’ public and cultural diplomacy.

scholarly journals Social class and gender impacting change in bilingual settings: Spanish subject pronoun use in New York

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Lapidus Shin ◽  
Ricardo Otheguy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
The Us ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis study examines the role of social class and gender in an ongoing change in Spanish spoken in New York City (NYC). The change, which has to do with increasing use of Spanish subject pronouns, is correlated with increased exposure to life in NYC and to English. Our investigation of six different national-origin groups shows a connection between affluence and change: the most affluent Latino groups undergo the most increase in pronoun use, while the least affluent undergo no change. This pattern is explained as further indication that resistance to linguistic change is more pronounced in poorer communities as a result of denser social networks. In addition we find a women effect: immigrant women lead men in the increasing use of pronouns. We argue that the women effect in bilingual settings warrants a reevaluation of existing explanations of women as leaders of linguistic change. (Language change, social class, gender, bilingualism, Spanish in the US, pronouns)*

Social variables and Turkish subject pronoun use in New York City: The effect of language contact

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Didem Koban Koç
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Central America ◽  
York City ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Subject Pronoun

AbstractOver recent years a great deal of attention has been paid to the influence of social variables on the usage of subject personal pronouns (SPP) in South and Central America as well as in immigrant communities in the USA (

scholarly journals Predicting the impact of sexual behavior change on adolescent STI in the US and New York State: a case study of the teen-SPARC tool

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Steven M. Goodreau ◽  
Emily D. Pollock ◽  
Li Yan Wang ◽  
Lisa C. Barrios ◽  
Richard L. Dunville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sexual Behavior Change ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-273
Author(s):  
Philip Limerick
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Mexican Spanish ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Mexican Community ◽  
Potential Contact ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
Subject Expression

Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in Georgia, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject pronoun expression. Pronoun variation among Mexican speakers is examined using sociolinguistic interview data. Tokens of subject pronouns (N = 4,649) were coded for linguistic variables previously shown to constrain subject expression (e.g. person/number, tense-mood-aspect [TMA], polarity) as well as social variables (e.g. English proficiency, age), and then analysed using multivariate analyses in Rbrul. Results indicate an overall pronoun rate of 27%, which is slightly higher than what has been reported for monolingual Mexican Spanish. Several linguistic variables (e.g. person/number, switch-reference, morphological ambiguity, polarity) and one social variable (age) played a significant role in pronoun variation. Moreover, differential effects were revealed when compared to monolingual Mexican Spanish for variables such as TMA. These findings point in the direction of dialect contact influences and the presence of a unique variety of Mexican Spanish in the U.S.

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