The Politics of Language: Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

Sampul Depan
Oxford University Press, 3 Mei 2001 - 232 halaman
Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.

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The Politics of Language National Identity and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
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2 Historical Background of Language Protection and Restriction
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3 Immigrant Exclusion and Language Restriction in the Twentieth Century
32
4 Language Rights and the Legal Status of EnglishOnly Laws
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5 Attitudes toward Language National Identity and Cultural Pluralism
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6 Language and Identity Politics in Canada
101
7 Identity and Social Incorporation in Multilingual Switzerland
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8 The Politics of Language in the Late Twentieth Century
144
The Future of Language Politics in the United States
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Halaman 70 - ... appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional programs.
Halaman 59 - That the state may do much, go very far, indeed, in order to improve the quality of its citizens, physically, mentally, and morally is clear; but the individual has certain fundamental rights which must be respected. The protection of the Constitution extends to all, to those who speak other languages as well as to those born with English on the tongue.
Halaman 65 - ... limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Halaman 18 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Halaman 112 - Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign, after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new Economic and Political Partnership, within the scope of the Bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?
Halaman 15 - The Signs in our Streets have Inscriptions in both Languages, and in some places only German. They begin of late to make all their Bonds and other legal Instruments in their own language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in our Courts, where the German Business so increases, that there is...
Halaman 19 - As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline.
Halaman 70 - Under these state-imposed standards there is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers, and curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education.
Halaman 23 - The instruction of the Indians in the vernacular is not only of no use to them, but is detrimental to the cause of their education and civilization, and no school will be permitted on the reservation in which the English language is not exclusively taught.
Halaman 15 - Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs any more than they can acquire our complexion?

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