Defending English in an English-dominant world: The ideology of the 'Official English' movement in the United States

Discourses of Endangerment: Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-215

  Schmidt, Ronald ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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