Later, under colonialism, English became the language of prestige.
After World War I there occurred a "renaissance" in literature (particularly poetry) in Scots that sought to restore the language's prestige and to modernize it.
He is clearly located as a "parascientist" – someone who is using the language and prestige of science to stake out a philosophical or political position.
Jesus preached in Aramaic, but in Roman Palestine, the language of prestige and commerce was Greek (not Latin, a flub made by Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ").
In a review of the literature, Lee, Sugimoto, Zhang, and Cronin (2013) report documented bias along gender, language, nationality, prestige, and content as well as such problems as lack of inter-reviewer reliability consistency, confirmation bias, and reviewer conservatism.
So many scandals of Christian leaders break out because much of their sins were hidden, masked by spiritual language and prestige.
Our study also found no evidence for bias in terms of the language and prestige of author institutions and only weak evidence for regional bias.
We find no evidence of bias in terms of gender, or the language or prestige of author and reviewer institutions in any of the three datasets, but some weak evidence of regional bias in all three.
Reviewer gender and the language and prestige of reviewer institutions appear to have little effect on review outcomes, but author gender, and the characteristics of author institutions have moderate to large effects.
