Book Reviews -- Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of "English Only" by James Crawford
Ferlazzo, Paul J., National Forum
JAMES CRAWFORD. Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of "English Only." Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992. 324 pages. $24.95.
In 1981, for the first time in the history of America, Congress was asked to consider a proposal to designate English as the official language of the land. The bill was introduced by California Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a semanticist by profession and author of a college textbook, Language in Thought and Action. Hayakawa, himself a Canadian immigrant of Japanese ancestry, felt that bilingual education in the public schools and accommodations for immigrant citizens such as bilingual ballots had gone too far. He argued that the …
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Article title: Book Reviews -- Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of "English Only" by James Crawford.
Contributors: Ferlazzo, Paul J. - Author.
Magazine title: National Forum.
Volume: 74.
Issue: 1
Publication date: Winter 1994.
Page number: 42.
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