Publications

Publication details [#64625]

Leeman, Jennifer. 2018. It’s all about English: the interplay of monolingual ideologies, language policies and the U.S. Census Bureau’s statistics on multilingualism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018 (252) : 21–44.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language policy | linguistic human rights | monolingualism | multilingualism | statistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper asserts that census language questions, policies and ideologies are intertwined and reciprocally strengthening. Thus, critical assays of census language questions must explore the particular policies for which language statistics are generated, as well as the ideologies that support those policies and the creation of language statistics.