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An essay is presented on writer and sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's critical opinions on Weimar cultural waves concerning Girlkultur and Amerikanismus. Topics discussed include girl-culture and Americanism as the modern forms of advanced and rationalized late capitalism, the overturning of humanity's dependence on money, technology, and media distractions as the crisis of classical modernity, and the role of Nazism in stressing supreme solidarity.

A case study is presented that discusses the translation of the British Harry Potter children's fiction series by J. K. Rowling into American English. Topics include the Americanization of spelling in the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" ("Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"), the impact of the changes on American children, and the roles of editors in U.S. publishing.

Quechua was in contact and alternation with Spanish for more than 300 years, and it acquired a particular poetic value in the 1840s and 1860s. At that time, some appraising studies of indigenous languages were published which resemantized the descriptions of the colonial period and contributed to establish images that were projected until the end of the 19th century and, in some cases, the mid-20th century. This article analyzes the characteristics of the eloquence and elegance bestowed upon Quechua in these studies, in relation to the mark of the Royal Commentaries by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the construction of the first lexicographical repertoires, and the coinciding 19th-century postulation of an American literature. Other themes include the poeticism of Quechua as a philological and ideological answer to the political hypotheses of exclusion and confrontation vis-à-vis native peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This multiregister corpus study investigates the social factors affecting concord variation found in existential there + be (ETB) constructions in present-day American English. The study questions previous work in this area, which suggests that a lack of concord is reflective of informal, conversational situations of use. The five registers analyzed (conversation, academic lectures, academic writing, fiction, and chat language) showed that the two spoken registers resulted in the greatest number of variation in agreement. A comparison of the linguistic contexts of ETBs in the two spoken registers finds both similarities and differences of function across two spoken registers. The article concludes by adopting the position that the contracted ETB construction is an unanalyzed chunk or formulaic sequence of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo habla de la crítica romántica brasileña y su relación con el americanismo. Uno de los momentos más importantes en la historia de la literatura brasileña fue cuando los críticos románticos se preguntaron por primera vez lo que es ser brasileño y los componentes necesarias para un texto nacional. El crítico Hélio Lopes definió el americanismo como una exaltación del continente americano desde el punto de vista del nacionalismo romántico brasileño.

Discusses the concept of Americanism based on the book `Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought,' by James W. Ceaser. Relationship of the book to the `Republic,' a political science book written by Plato; Arguments of Ceaser on Americanism; Analysis on a passage from the book which deals with Ceaser's discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Focuses on Americanisms in Henry D. Thoreau's 'Journal' which have not been acknowledged by the historical dictionaries. Antecedents of earliest corresponding citations in the 'Dictionary of American English'; Localisms collected by Thoreau in New England; Criteria used to determine the content of the 'Journal.'