[lg policy] bibitem: Language politics and policy in the United States: implications for the immigration debate

[Harold Schiffman]

Language politics and policy in the United States: implications for
the immigration debate
by: April Linton

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 2009, No.
199. (13 November 2010), pp. 9-37.

Abstract

Is there a role for language policy in immigration policy? This
article examines recent attempts to legislate language in light of
historical and contemporary debates about immigration and immigrant
assimilation. It chronicles U.S. language politics and policy, and
then appraises national language and official English bills recently
introduced in Congress in view of data on language usage and
preferences, suggesting ways that the current resurgence of a national
debate about language could and should impact the larger debate about
immigration. Abstract Is there a role for language policy in
immigration policy? This article examines recent attempts to legislate
language in light of historical and contemporary debates about
immigration and immigrant assimilation. It chronicles U.S. language
politics and policy, and then appraises national language and official
English bills recently introduced in Congress in view of data on
language usage and preferences, suggesting ways that the current
resurgence of a national debate about language could and should impact
the larger debate about immigration.

http://www.citeulike.org/user/JOcumpaugh/article/8244168

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