Language Loyalties
Title | Language Loyalties PDF eBook |
Author | James Crawford |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1992-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0226120163 |
As late as 1987, two-thirds of the Americans who responded to a national survey believed that English was the official language of the United States. In fact, the Constitution is silent on the issue. Since Senator S. I. Hayakawa first proposed an English Language Amendment in Congress in 1981, Official English has been considered in forty-seven states and adopted by seventeen; the amendment is pending in the 102d Congress. Supporters argue that English has always been our common language—a means of resolving conflicts in a nation of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and an essential tool of social mobility and cultural integration. Opponents charge that the amendment is unnecessary and that it threatens civil rights, educational opportunities, and free speech, wrapping racist biases in a cloak of patriotism. Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy provides a balanced, comprehensive guide to this complex and often confusing debate. It is an essential handbook and reference for advocates, educators, policymakers, jurists, scholars, and citizens who seek to join this debate fully informed. Addressing the issues involved in developing America's first planned national language policy, James Crawford has expertly collected and introduced more than eighty-five source documents and articles.
Language Loyalties
Title | Language Loyalties PDF eBook |
Author | James Crawford |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1992-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226120157 |
As late as 1987, two-thirds of the Americans who responded to a national survey believed that English was the official language of the United States. In fact, the Constitution is silent on the issue. Since Senator S. I. Hayakawa first proposed an English Language Amendment in Congress in 1981, Official English has been considered in forty-seven states and adopted by seventeen; the amendment is pending in the 102d Congress. Supporters argue that English has always been our common language—a means of resolving conflicts in a nation of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and an essential tool of social mobility and cultural integration. Opponents charge that the amendment is unnecessary and that it threatens civil rights, educational opportunities, and free speech, wrapping racist biases in a cloak of patriotism. Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy provides a balanced, comprehensive guide to this complex and often confusing debate. It is an essential handbook and reference for advocates, educators, policymakers, jurists, scholars, and citizens who seek to join this debate fully informed. Addressing the issues involved in developing America's first planned national language policy, James Crawford has expertly collected and introduced more than eighty-five source documents and articles.
Atlantic Loyalties
Title | Atlantic Loyalties PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Andrew McMichael |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820336505 |
Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration’s attitude toward resident Americans. The Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ownership, McMichael shows, used an efficient system of land distribution and government patronage that engendered loyalty and withstood a series of conflicts that tested, but did not shatter, residents’ allegiance. McMichael focuses on the Baton Rouge district of Spanish West Florida from 1785 through 1810, analyzing why resident Anglo-Americans, who had maintained a high degree of loyalty to the Spanish Crown through 1809, rebelled in 1810. The book contextualizes the 1810 rebellion, and by extension the southern frontier, within the broader Atlantic World, showing how both local factors as well as events in Europe affected lives in the Spanish borderlands. Breaking with traditional scholarship, McMichael examines contests over land and slaves as a determinant of loyalty. He draws on Spanish, French, and Anglo records to challenge scholarship that asserts a particularly “American” loyalty on the frontier whereby Anglo-American residents in West Florida, as disaffected subjects of the Spanish Crown, patiently abided until they could overthrow an alien system. Rather, it was political, social, and cultural conflicts--not nationalist ideology--that disrupted networks by which economic prosperity was gained and thus loyalty retained.
Language Loyalties in the United States. The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups
Title | Language Loyalties in the United States. The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua A. Fishman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1966 |
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Language and Minority Rights
Title | Language and Minority Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen May |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 113683706X |
The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of English as the current world language. May’s broad position, however, remains largely unchanged. He argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today still lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentializing the language-identity link. This edition, like the first, adopts a wide interdisciplinary framework, drawing on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, political theory, education and law. It also includes new discussions of cosmopolitanism, globalization, the role of English, and language and mobility, highlighting the ongoing difficulties faced by minority language speakers in the world today.
Language Minority Students in American Schools
Title | Language Minority Students in American Schools PDF eBook |
Author | H. D. Adamson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2005-03-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135626030 |
Addresses questions of language education in the US, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students who do not speak English as a native language.
Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA
Title | Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Thom Huebner |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027241238 |
In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenesis, and gender neutralization in American English."--BOOK JACKET.