36.143, Books: Making English Official: Katherine S. Flowers

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Subject: 36.143, Books: Making English Official: Katherine S. Flowers

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Making English Official: Katherine S. Flowers


Title: Making English Official
Subtitle: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policies
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009278027

Author(s): Katherine S. Flowers

Hardback 9781009278027 £95.00 / $125.00 / 110.87 EURO

Abstract:

In communities across the US, people wrestle with which languages to
use, and who gets to decide. Despite more than 67 million US residents
using a language other than English at home, over half of the states
in the US have successfully passed English-only policies. 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, 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. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may
also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for
details.

Written In: English (eng)



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