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

  • April Linton
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. September 2009
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 2009 Heft 199

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.


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Published Online: 2009-09-15
Published in Print: 2009-September

© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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