Early U.S. governors were mainly preoccupied with "Americanizing" Puerto Rican institutions, language, and political habits, but they had no clear policy regarding the island's eventual political status.
In psychiatric institutions language is a power tool and a camouflage, a lie that tells a truth (and vice versa), a formula and a revelation.
The use of short video capsules about patients' rights could be arranged in different waiting areas of the institutions; language should be respectful and simple according to the educational level of the average population.
From the original survey of 2,681 households, we selected a subset of parents based on location (one hour drive of our academic institution), language (spoke English or Spanish), and insurance status of their children (public or private insurance).
In the past decade, the number of institutions offering languages such as French, German and Italian has dropped by 18%.
However, it should be noted that institutions of language, such as the English language, are often regarded not simply as institutions but as more fundamental than many other kinds of institution by virtue of being presupposed by, or in part constitutive of, other institutions.
Critics of the bill question why it was necessary to include language in a bill, designed to rescue failing financial institutions, with language that could exclude minority and woman-owned firms from federal contracting opportunities.
In the 1951 version (2009, &sec &sec 203, 242ff) such language is impossible to coherently make sense of, the language is being shown to be dependent on the public social institutions of language-games and their rules as embedded in actual forms of life.
Our habits and institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and "in some sense vaguely progressive".
The implication was that the northwest was to be open to French institutions and language as well as English, an assumption that was to be thwarted by the extreme smallness of the new province, which amounted to little more than the Red River Settlement, and by the dominion's control of natural resources and of the still vast North West Territory.
