著者

Deniis Baron

出版者

琉球大学

雑誌

The Okinawan journal of American studies (ISSN:13491032)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.1-12, 2005

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Recent decades have seen a rise in nativism in the United States, manifested in calls for tighter immigration controls, resistance ot bilingual education,m and increasing support for English as the official language. There are renewed calls to restrict both the public and private scope of languages other than English, as well as the stignatized dialect called nariously Black English. Afro-Americhan Nernacular English, or Ebonics. While earlier nativist movenents in the U.S. targeteed immigratant groups. Hispanics show more language loyalty and resist assimilation into the Anglo mainstream, supporting their claims with figures from the recent Census 2000/ I will discuss the history of U.S. language policy in light of recent legislation, legal decisions, Census language data, and public commentary on language issues. While Spanish contimues to be perceived as kisruptive and a threat to the dominance of English, I argue that such perceptons are erroneous, based more on prejudice than on linguistic reality.