Assessing voter attitude toward language policy issues in the United States

Language Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-39

  Palozzi, Vincent J ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Language Education ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Language attitudes; Language planning and policy; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 32944471260     PISSN: 15684555     EISSN: 15731863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-005-5624-8     Document Type: Review

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