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Autor/in | Trimbur, John |
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Titel | Linguistic Memory and the Politics of U.S. English |
Quelle | In: College English, 68 (2006) 6, S.575-588 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0010-0994 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Multilingualism; Memory; Linguistics; Official Languages; Monolingualism; Language Planning; English; Diachronic Linguistics; English Only Movement; Public Policy; Old English; United Kingdom (England); United States |
Abstract | Tracing the effects of the "laissez-faire" postcolonial politics of language in the United States, which in fact enabled English to become the dominant language through cultural rather than institutional means, the essay then suggests how the linguistic memory that emerges from decolonization and nation building continues, often in unsuspected ways, to influence the language policy of the modern U.S. university and U.S. college composition. The author argues for a national language policy that moves beyond the notion of language as a right, with its lingering assumptions of English monolingualism as an ultimate goal, and instead fosters a linguistic culture where being multilingual is both normal and desirable. (Author). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |