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UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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LING 050 [006E]: Language
in the USA
Social & Behavioral Science/Other (SS) [GC Social Science]
Paul Roberge
This seminar examines the linguistic landscape of the United
States from the importation of the English language to North
America and the disruption of an indigenous linguistic ecology
to contemporary language politics. Topics include: regional,
social, and ethnic dialects of American English; language
policy and planning; language maintenance and shift among
immigrant groups; the decline of Native American languages;
nativism and the English-only movement; the standard language
ideology and the politics of non-mainstream of American English
in education (e.g., African American Vernacular English, Appalachian
English); slang and solidarity; and the question of language
reform as a remedy to inequality, sexism, and stereotyping.
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