Substance & style. 30 étapes de civilisation et expression en anglais - 2e édition

Marnotte Charlotte, Leluan-Pinker Anne-Sophie, Fichaux Fabien, Delaby Guillaume

• Éditeur: Editions Ellipses
• Année: 2020
• ISBN:
  9782340044166
• Sujet: Languages & Linguistics
• Sous-sujet: Linguistics

Cette seconde édition a pour vocation d'accompagner le lecteur dans l'apprentissage de la langue anglaise et de la civilisation anglo-saxonne, avec:

• Des éléments de cours,
• Des connaissances de civilisation américaine et de civilisation britannique,
• Des conseils de rédaction et d' amélioration du style.

Chapter 1

The US: a Nation of Immigrants

Essential vocabulary

• to abdicate	abdiquer
• to appoint	nommer
• assent	assentiment
• commoner	roturier
• coronation	couronnement
• craze	engouement
• to cut down	réduire
• to dissolve	dissoudre
• to draft	rédiger
• engagement	fiançailles
• establishment	establishment, élites
• expenses	notes de frais
• former	ancien
• heir	un héritier
• to implement	mettre en œuvre
• to inherit	hériter
• to lay down	imposer, stipuler
• line of succession	ordre de succession
• outcry	tollé
• overseas	à l’étranger
• pageantry	cérémonies officielles
• a palace	un palais
• policy	politique (appliquée à un domaine particulier)
• to prosecute	poursuivre en justice
• realm	royaume
• rule of law	État de droit
• to sack	virer
• to scrutinise	examiner
• to set out	préciser
• sovereign	souverain

A brief history of immigration to the USA until 1945

Immigration is the process through which individuals become temporary, permanent residents or citizens of a host country. Historically, the process of immigration has been a social, economic and cultural asset to the USA. It has resulted in the development of a multicultural society, which is today characterized by a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities deriving from these periods of immigration.

The US is therefore a nation of immigrants, and it has always been so. Americans share a common experience: they or their forebears left another country to begin anew in the United States. Successive migration waves have occurred since the 16th century and it is today considered that about 15% of the US population today was foreign-born. Thus, immigration is a defining factor of the American identity.

The first settlers were mostly Spanish, British and French settlers that left their country for various reasons (exploration, religion or trade). In the 17th century, the English Puritans left the Old continent when the developing Protestantism caused persecution and established a settlement on the East coast. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers left P...

Table des matières

• Couverture
• Page de titre
• Page de copyright
• Avant-propos
• Chapter 1. The US: a Nation of Immigrants
• Chapter 2. The American Dream
• Chapter 3. The American Constitution
• Chapter 4. Political parties in the USA
• Chapter 5. Religion in the USA
• Chapter 6. Gun Laws in the USA
• Chapter 7. Affirmative Action
• Chapter 8. The Death Penalty in the US
• Chapter 9. Discriminations in the USA
• Chapter 10. Self-Reliance and the Ownership Society
• Chapter 11. Major social movements in the US since 2016
• Chapter 12. The 2016 Race for the US Presidency
• Chapter 13. Donald Trump’s Presidency
• Chapter 14. The British Monarchy and the Establishment in the UK
• Chapter 15. Political parties in the UK
• Chapter 16. Education in the UK
• Chapter 17. Religion in the UK
• Chapter 18. Scotland : from the Act of Union to Devolution
• Chapter 19. The Scottish Independence Issue
• Chapter 20. Northern Ireland
• Chapter 21. Britain’s Fourth Estate
• Chapter 22. Multiculturalism in the UK
• Chapter 23. The UK and the EU
• Chapter 24. The Welfare system in the USA and in the UK
• Chapter 25. Health in the UK and the USA
• Chapter 26. Civil liberties and the fight against terrorism in today’s US and UK
• Chapter 27. Lessons from the Economic Crisis
• Chapter 28. Globalisation
• Chapter 29. The Glass Ceiling
• Chapter 30. Social networks
• Tables des matières