Author | Dicker, Susan J |
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Title | Languages in America [electronic resource] : a pluralist view / Susan J. Dicker |
Imprint | Clevedon ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2003 |
Edition | 2nd ed |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=91401 |
Descript | xvi, 363 p. : ill |
Language and identity -- The melting-pot mythology -- Common misconceptions about language learning -- Languages in the schools -- The modem official-English movement -- Challenges to language restrictionism -- Lessons in multilingualism beyond the United States -- The possibilities of a pluralistic, multilingual America