For Wednesday 2/2, please read the following, both of which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1997, June 30. Lingo jingo: English-Only and the new nativism. The American Prospect. Rodriguez, Richard. 1980. An education in language. In L. Michaels and C. Ricks (eds), The State of the Language, 129-139. Berkeley: Univ. of California …

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Next week, we will continue to look at multilingualism, but shift our attention to questions of national language policy and official languages.  In particular, we will spend some time considering language policy in America, in the context of the “official-English” movement.  In the “Readings” section of this website, I’ve posted a collection (PDF) of primary …

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For this Wednesday and Friday, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.  (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.) Grosjean, François. 1982. Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 1 (‘Bilingualism and …

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