Creating republican machines: Language governmentality in the United States  

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Flores, Nelson

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION: An International Research Journal vol. 25 (2014), page 1-11.
Topik: Governmentality; Language policy; Noah Webster; English-Onlya
Fulltext: LE_25_2014_Flores.pdf (590.91KB)

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Scholars have traditionally framed the study of early U.S. language policy around levels of tolerance for languages other than English. This article argues that this framing over looks a larger epistemological shift occurring in the era associated with a shift toward liberal democratic governance. Specifically, the article uses the Foucauldian-inspired frame work of language governmentality to examine how early U.S. scholars of language played an integral role in the development of a new language rationality designed as part of a larger political rationality to produce governable subjects to fit the needs of the newly emerging U.S. democracy—what early U.S. leader Benjamin Rush referred to as “republican machines.”It then demonstrates how both sides of the contemporary debate on making English the official language of the United States continue to perpetuate this language rationality in ways that reinforce social inequalities

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