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Press "ONE" for English
Deborah Jill Schildkraut
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Description for Press "ONE" for English
Paperback. Examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. This work shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 line illus. 24 tables. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CFB; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Press "ONE" for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. Deborah Schildkraut shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Using insights from American political thought and intellectual history, she highlights several components of that identity and shows how they are brought to bear on debates about language. Her analysis expands the range of factors typically thought to explain attitudes in such policy areas, emphasizing in particular the role that civic republicanism's call for ... Read more
Press "ONE" for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. Deborah Schildkraut shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Using insights from American political thought and intellectual history, she highlights several components of that identity and shows how they are brought to bear on debates about language. Her analysis expands the range of factors typically thought to explain attitudes in such policy areas, emphasizing in particular the role that civic republicanism's call for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691130576
SKU
V9780691130576
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About Deborah Jill Schildkraut
Deborah J. Schildkraut is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
Reviews for Press "ONE" for English
"In this well-written and engaging book, Deborah Schildkraut argues that competing images constitute distinct conception of American identity and that all of these must be incorporated into analyses of public support for and opposition to ethnicity-related policies such as official English... The fact that ethnoculturalism is a full-blown conception of American identity suggests that ascriptive attributes of ethnicity and race ... Read more