Making English official writing and resisting local language policies
In communities across the US, people wrestle with which languages to use, and who gets to decide. Despite more than 67 million US residents using a language other than English at home, over half of the states in the US have successfully passed English-only policies. Drawing on archives and interview...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The origins of the English-only movement
- Creating English-only policies: ghostwriting, templates, and genre choices
- Emphasizing the local in language policy: from upscaling to downscaling
- Resisting and rewriting: how people undo English-only policies