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

[Joyce Milambiling via Lgpolicy]

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.

On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Flowers, Katherine S via Lgpolicy <
lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

> 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 now 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
>
>
>


-- 
Professor Emerita
TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Department of Languages & Literatures
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502
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