Sociopolitical perspectives on language policy and planning in the USA

382 Pages·1999·1.531 MB·English

by  Thom Huebner, Kathryn Anne Davis, Joseph Lo Bianco

SOCIOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING IN THE USA
STUDIES IN BILINGUALISM (SiBil)
EDITORS
Kees de Bot Thom Huebner
University of Nijmegen San José State University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Michael Clyne (Monash University)
Kathryn Davis (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Joshua Fishman (Yeshiva University)
François Grosjean (Université de Neuchâtel)
Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik)
Georges Lüdi (University of Basel)
Christina Bratt Paulston (University of Pittsburgh)
Suzanne Romaine (Merton College, Oxford)
Merrill Swain (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
Richard Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University)

Volume 16
Thom Huebner and Kathryn A. Davis (eds)
Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA
SOCIOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON LANGUAGE POLICY
AND PLANNING IN THE USA
Edited by
THOM HUEBNER
San Jose State University
KATHRYN A. DAVIS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
With assistance from Joseph Lo Bianco

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Table of Contents
Listofcontributors ix
ListofpublicationsbyCharleneJunkoSato x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xv
Language Policy/Planning Frameworks
SociopoliticalPerspectivesonLanguagePolicy,Politics,andPraxis 1
ThomHuebner
ComparativeHistoricalAnalysisofU.S.LanguagePolicyandLanguage
Planning:ExtendingtheFoundations 17
TerrenceG.Wiley
TheLanguageofPolicy:WhatSortofPolicyMakingistheOfficialization
ofEnglishintheUnitedStates? 39
JosephLoBianco
TheSociopoliticalDynamicsofIndigenousLanguageMaintenanceand
Loss:AFrameworkforLanguagePolicyandPlanning 67
KathrynA.Davis
Culture,Discourse,and IndigenousEpistemology:TranscendingCurrent
ModelsinLanguagePlanningandPolicy 99
KarenA.Watson-GegeoandDavidW.Gegeo
Policy and Politics
LookingatFederalEducationLegislationFromaLanguagePolicy/
PlanningPerspective 117
DonnaChristian
PublicPerceptionsofOfficialEnglish/EnglishOnly:FramingtheDebate
inArizona 131
MaryCarolCombs
viii contents
LanguagePolicy/PlanningandU.S.Colonialism:ThePuertoRicanThorn
inEnglish-Only’sSide 155
AnaCeliaZentella
USLanguagePlanningandPoliciesforSocialDialectSpeakers 173
MarcylienaMorgan
ThePoliticsofSignLanguage:LanguagePlanningforDeafAmericans 193
MichaelStrong
LanguageVarietiesandLanguagePolicy:TheAppreciationofPidgin 205
LaianaWong
(Mis)EducatingMexicanAmericansThroughLanguage 223
LiliaI.BartoloméandDonaldoMacedo
LanguageandEquality:IdeologicalandStructuralConstraintsin
ForeignLanguageEducationintheU.S. 243
LourdesOrtega
Praxis
TheRoleofLanguageandCultureinTeachingReading:Language
PolicyandPlanningforDiversePopulations 267
AngelaEuniceRickford
ForeignLanguagePolicyandPlanninginHigherEducation:TheCase
oftheStateofFlorida 297
AnaRoca
HawaiianLanguageRegenesis:PlanningforIntergenerationalUse
ofHawaiianBeyondtheSchool 313
SamNo‘eauWarner
FromDevelopingOne’sVoicetoMakingOneselfHeard:Affecting
LanguagePolicyfromtheBottomUp 333
KlaudiaM.Rivera
TheRoleofSocialNetworksandtheStrengthofWeakTiesinChanging
LanguagePolicy:GenderNeutralizationinAmericanEnglish 347
PatriciaC.Nichols
Index 361
List of Contributors
LiliaI.Bartolomé LourdesOrtega
UniversityofMassachusetts,Boston UniversityofHawai‘iatMa¯noa
DonnaChristian AngelaEuniceRickford
CenterforAppliedLinguistics SanJoséStateUniversity
MaryCarolCombs KlaudiaM.Rivera
UniversityofArizona LongIslandUniversity,Brooklyn
Campus
KathrynA.Davis
UniversityofHawai‘iatMa¯noa AnaRoca
FloridaInternationalUniversity
DavidGegeo
CaliforniaStateUniversity, MichaelStrong
MontereyBay CenteronDeafness
UniversityofCalifornia,
ThomHuebner
SanFrancisco
SanJoséStateUniversity
SamNo‘eauWarner
JosephLoBianco
UniversityofHawai‘iatMa¯noa
NaturalLanguagesandLiteracy
InstituteofAustralia KarenWatson-Gegeo
AustralianNationalUniversity UniversityofCalifornia,Davis
DonaldoMacedo TerrenceG.Wiley

UniversityofMassachusetts, CaliforniaStateUniversity,Long
Boston Beach
MarcylienaMorgan LaianaWong
HarvardUniversityGraduate UniversityofHawai‘iatMa¯noa
SchoolofEducation
AnaCeliaZentella
PatriciaC.Nichols HunterCollegeandCUNYGraduate
SanJoséStateUniversity School
List of publications by Charlene Junko Sato
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1983aPhonologicalprocessesinsecond-languageacquisition:Anotherlookatthe
interlanguagesyllablestructure.UHWPESL2(2):41–62.
1983bClassroomforeignertalkdiscourse:Formsandfunctionsofteacher’sques-
tions. With M.H. Long. In H.W. Seliger and M.H. Long (eds.), Classroom-
orientatedresearchinsecond-languageacquisition.Rowley,Mass.:Newbury
House.
1984aPhonologicalprocessesinsecond-languageacquisition:Anotherlookatthe
interlanguagesyllablestructure.LanguageLearning34(4):43–57.
1984bTask variation in interlanguage phonology. With M.H. Long. UHWPESL
3(1):21–50.
1984cMethodologicalissuesininterlanguagestudies:Aninteractionistperspective.
InA.Davies,C.Criper,andA.P.R.Howatt(eds.),Interlanguage.Edinburgh:
EdinburghUniversityPress.
1985aLinguisticinequalityinHawaii:Thepost-creoledilemma.InN.Wolfsonand
J.Manes(eds.),Languageofinequality.Berlin:Mouton.
1985bTaskvariationininterlanguagephonology.InS.GassandC.Madden(eds.),
Inputinsecond-la nguageacquisition.Rowley,Mass.:NewburyHouse.
1986Conversationandinterlanguagedevelopment:Rethinkingtheconnection.In
R.Day(ed.),Conversationinsecond-languageacquisition.Rowley, Mass.:
NewburyHouse.
1987aOriginsofcomplexsyntaxininterlanguagedevelopment.UHWPESL6(2):
49–106.
1987bPhonologicalprocessesinsecond-languageacquisition:Anotherlookatthe
interlanguagesyllable structure.In G.Ioup andS. Weinberger(eds.), Inter-
languagephonology.Rowley,Mass.:NewburyHouse.
1987cJohnE.Reinecke:Hislifeandwork.WithA.Reinecke.InG.Gilbert(ed.),
Pidginandcreolelanguages:EssaysinmemoryofJohnE.Reinecke.Hono-
lulu:UniversityofHawaiipress.