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  1. Press "ONE" for English
    Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity
    Published: [2007]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400849338
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    Subjects: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie; Language policy / United States; English language / Political aspects / United States; Public opinion / United States; Group identity / United States; English-only movement; Amerikaans; Taalpolitiek; Publieke opinie; Nationale identiteit; Öffentliche Meinung; Nationalbewusstsein; Sprachpolitik; English language / Political aspects; Group identity; Language policy; Public opinion; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Englisch; Nationalbewusstsein; Politik; Interessenvertretung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Nationalbewusstsein; Englisch; Sprachpolitik; Gruppenidentität
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    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 active and responsible citizenship plays in shaping opinion on language issues. Using focus groups and survey data, Schildkraut develops a model of public conceptions of what it means to be American and demonstrates the complex ways in which people draw on these conceptions when forming and explaining their views. In so doing she illustrates how focus group methodology can help yield vital new insights into opinion formation. With the rise in the use of ballot initiatives to implement language policies, understanding opinion formation in this policy area has become imperative. This book enhances our understanding of this increasingly pressing concern, and points the way toward humane, effective, and broadly popular language policies that address the realities of American demographics in the twenty-first century while staying true to the nation's most revered values

  2. Press "ONE" for English
    Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity
    Published: [2007]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie; Language policy / United States; English language / Political aspects / United States; Public opinion / United States; Group identity / United States; English-only movement; Amerikaans; Taalpolitiek; Publieke opinie; Nationale identiteit; Öffentliche Meinung; Nationalbewusstsein; Sprachpolitik; English language / Political aspects; Group identity; Language policy; Public opinion; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Englisch; Nationalbewusstsein; Politik; Interessenvertretung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Nationalbewusstsein; Englisch; Sprachpolitik; Gruppenidentität
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (256p.)
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    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 active and responsible citizenship plays in shaping opinion on language issues. Using focus groups and survey data, Schildkraut develops a model of public conceptions of what it means to be American and demonstrates the complex ways in which people draw on these conceptions when forming and explaining their views. In so doing she illustrates how focus group methodology can help yield vital new insights into opinion formation. With the rise in the use of ballot initiatives to implement language policies, understanding opinion formation in this policy area has become imperative. This book enhances our understanding of this increasingly pressing concern, and points the way toward humane, effective, and broadly popular language policies that address the realities of American demographics in the twenty-first century while staying true to the nation's most revered values

  3. Representative words
    politics, literature, and the American language, 1776-1865
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum - 'The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language' - belongs to a long tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language that stretches back in Western culture.... more

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum - 'The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language' - belongs to a long tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language that stretches back in Western culture. Representative Words, which gives an account of the tradition from its classical and Christian origins through the Enlightenment, is primarily a study of how and why Americans renewed and developed it between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars. It is the first comprehensive treatment of the background to and the appearance of the wealth of theories about language in the early era of American political and cultural discourse. Professor Gustafson's argument demonstrates the interconnectedness of the state of language and the state of society and turns on the question of representation and misrepresentation - whether and how words represent or misrepresent nature, social reality, truth, and value in the new American experiment in representative republican government

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511983740
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    RVK Categories: HF 614 ; HF 683 ; HF 685
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 60
    Subjects: Englisch; Geschichte; Politik; American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Politics and literature / United States / History / 19th century; English language / Political aspects / United States; Rhetoric / Political aspects / United States; Politicians / United States / Language; Political oratory / United States; Politische Sprache; Sprachpflege; Amerikanisches Englisch; Sprache; Rhetorik; Politik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 469 pages)
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    pt. I. The American logocracy : the nexus of word and act: 1. Political and linguistic representation : confidence or distrust? 2. Language and legal constitutions : the problem of change and who governs -- pt. II. Political and linguistic corruption : the ideological inheritance: 3. The classical pattern : from the order of Orpheus to the chaos of the Thucydidean moment. 4. The Christian typology : from Eden to Babel to Pentecost. 5. Eloquence, liberty, and power : civic humanism and the Counter-Renaissance. 6. The Enlightenment project : language reform and political order -- pt. III. The American language of revolution and constitutional change: 7. The language of revolution : combating misrepresentation with the pen and tongue. 8. The grammar of politics : the Constitution -- pt. IV. From Logomachy to civil war : the politics of language in pre-Revolutionary America: 9. The unsettled language : schoolmasters vs. truants. 10. Corrupt language and corrupt body politic, or the disunion of words and things. 11. Sovereign words vs. representative men