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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time

Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative

James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan, Editors

"A valuable compendium of knowledge. . . . the volume provides a current, accessible, welcome, and well-tempered picture of contemporary scholarship."
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Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.

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"A valuable compendium of knowledge. . . . the volume provides a current, accessible, welcome, and well-tempered picture of contemporary scholarship."—Modern Language Journal

Contributors

Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng Roger Bowers Anna Uhl Chamot James R. Child Donna Christian Colleen Cotter Madeline Ehrman Ralph W. Fasold Reinhold Freudenstein Leanne Hinton Frederick H. Jackson Marsha A. Kaplan Stephen D. Krashen Pardee Lowe Jr. Beth A. Mackey Margaret E. Malone Tom McArthur Salikoko Mufwene Denise E. Murray Anne Pakir Rosalie Pendalino Porter John A. Rassias David L. Red Ronald Scollon Shaligram Shukla Roger W. Shuy Bernard Spolsky Eric J. Stone Edwin Thumboo G. Richard Tucker Walt Wolfram


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About the Author

James E. Alatis is dean emeritus of the School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Ai-Hui Tan is the coordinator of the Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.

Hardcover
464 pp., 6 x 9

ISBN:
Sep 2001
World

Paperback
464 pp., 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-0-87840-132-1
Sep 2001
World

Ebook
464 pp.

ISBN: 978-1-58901-854-9
Sep 2001
World

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series

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