Congratulations, Katherine! I think you might have been too modest – – I had to go to the link to realize that it was your book. It’s a fascinating subject.<br><br>On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Flowers, Katherine S via Lgpolicy <<a href="mailto:lgpolicy@lists.mail.umbc.edu">lgpolicy@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">I’m happy to share the publication of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/making-english-official-writing-and-resisting-local-language-policies?format=HB" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155cc">Making
English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">, out now from Cambridge University Press. The book contributes to research on language policy, writing studies,
rhetoric, sociocultural linguistics, applied linguistics, and the English language. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Description and Audience</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Making English Official</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> offers an inside look at the movement to make English the only official language in local communities
around the US. Drawing on archives and interviews, this book tells the origin story of the English-only movement, as well as the stories of contemporary language policy campaigns in four Maryland county governments (including two that are connected by the
bridge on the book cover), giving a rare glimpse into what motivates the people who most directly shape language policy in the US. It demonstrates that English-only policies grow from more local levels, rather than from nationalist ideologies, where they are
downplayed as harmless community initiatives, but result in monolingual approaches to language remaining increasingly pervasive. With chapters on histories, policy writing processes and genre choices, language ideologies, and resistance strategies, I hope
there will be something for everyone interested in language and literacy. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Accessing the Book</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">A few ways to read more:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Use the 20% off coupon code MAENOF23 through Cambridge University Press <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Request that your library look into acquiring it (or, see if your library already has it as a<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-english-official/E034515406DC368A0BBE7C4C6F8CB572" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>Cambridge Core ebook</a>)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Order through<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-English-Official-Resisting-Language/dp/1009278029" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>Amazon</a>,<a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Making-English-Official-by-Katherine-S-Flowers/9781009278027" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>Blackwell’s</a>, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">See the<a href="https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/frontmatter/9781009278027_frontmatter.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>front matter</a>, the<a href="https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/excerpt/9781009278027_excerpt.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>first ten pages of the Introduction</a>, and the<a href="https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/index/9781009278027_index.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">
</span>index</a> for free <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Ask me if you’d like to see a particular chapter, or if you have issues accessing the book in general. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Long term, the book is part of the “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/open-research/open-access/flip-it-open" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Flip
it Open</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">” program, which means it is eligible to go Open Access after a certain point. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Thank you,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Katherine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Katherine S. Flowers</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Assistant Professor of English</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">University of Massachusetts Lowell</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="mailto:katherine_flowers@uml.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155cc">katherine_flowers@uml.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.uml.edu/fahss/english/faculty/flowers-katherine.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155cc">https://www.uml.edu/fahss/<wbr>english/faculty/flowers-<wbr>katherine.aspx</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Professor Emerita<br>TESOL/Applied Linguistics</div><div>Department of Languages & Literatures</div><div>University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>