Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US (6) (Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights (6))

This book explores the close association between use of a language and the sense of affiliation with the culture associated with it: an allegiance that seems to garner a type of loyalty and support that few other identities command. Language allegiances / Rafael Salaberry Language attitudes and linguistic outcomes in reading, Pennsylvania / Jacqueline Toribio A sociolinguistic view of speech sciences / Nancy Niedzielski Linguistic profiling: the linguistic point of view / Dennis R. Preston The bilingual's hoarse voice: losing rights in two Languages / Sandra Del Valle Problems with the language-as-resource discourse in the promotion of heritage languages in the U.S.A. / Thomas Ricento English hegemony and the politics of ethno-linguistic justice in the United States /Ronald Schmidt Livin' and teachin' la lengua loca : glocalizing U.S. Spanish ideologies and practices / Ofelia Garcia Bilingual education: assimilation, segregation and integration / Rafael Salaberry. This book analyses the concept of language allegiances, and, more broadly, language-based identities in a multilingual society such as the US. The guiding theme of the chapters that comprise this volume is the identification of specific beliefs and attitudes towards language, and how these lead to particular actions in the spheres of language ideology, legal litigation, educational agendas, political strategies and cultural identities. The authors share the idea that, whether it is based on reality or a perception of reality, there is a privileged connection between language and identity.