[Lgpolicy] New Book - 'Making English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies'

[Katherine Flowers via Lgpolicy]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m happy to share the publication of Making English Official: Writing and
Resisting Local Language Policies
<https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/making-english-official-writing-and-resisting-local-language-policies?format=HB>,
out today from Cambridge University Press. The book contributes to research
on language policy, writing studies, rhetoric, sociocultural linguistics,
applied linguistics, and the English language.



Description and Audience

Making English Official 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.

Accessing the Book

A few ways to read more:

   1.

   Use the 20% off coupon code MAENOF23 through Cambridge University Press
   2.

   Request that your library look into acquiring it (or, see if your
   library already has it as a Cambridge Core ebook
   <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-english-official/E034515406DC368A0BBE7C4C6F8CB572>
   )
   3.

   Order through Amazon
   <https://www.amazon.com/Making-English-Official-Resisting-Language/dp/1009278029>
   , Blackwell’s
   <https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Making-English-Official-by-Katherine-S-Flowers/9781009278027>,
   etc.
   4.

   See the front matter
   <https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/frontmatter/9781009278027_frontmatter.pdf>,
   the first ten pages of the Introduction
   <https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/excerpt/9781009278027_excerpt.pdf>,
   and the index
   <https://assets.cambridge.org/97810092/78027/index/9781009278027_index.pdf>
   for free
   5.

   Ask me if you’d like to see a particular chapter, or if you have issues
   accessing the book in general.



Long term, the book is part of the “Flip it Open
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/open-research/open-access/flip-it-open>”
program, which means it is eligible to go Open Access after a certain
point.



Thank you,

Katherine



Katherine S. Flowers

Assistant Professor of English

University of Massachusetts Lowell

katherine_flowers at uml.edu

https://www.uml.edu/fahss/english/faculty/flowers-katherine.aspx
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