TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flowers,Katherine S.
TI  - Making English official: writing and resisting local language policies 
SN  - 9781009278058 (ebook)
AV  - P119.32.U6 F58 2024
U1  - 306.442/21073 23/eng/20231023
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language policy
KW  - United States
KW  - English-only movement
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2024); The origins of the English-only movement -- Creating English-only policies: ghostwriting, templates, and genre choices -- Emphasizing the local in language policy: from upscaling to downscaling -- Resisting and rewriting: how people undo English-only policies
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009278058
ER  -