Emerging Voices : “Speak White”: Language Policy, Immigration Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England

College English Jul 2013

Emerging Voices : “Speak White”: Language Policy, Immigration Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England

Jason Peters

Abstract

This article provides a historical case study of the Sentinelle Affair, a conflict between French language rights and the English Only educational policies of the Catholic Church in New England in the 1920s. An analysis of this conflict reveals a correspondence between programs of language centralization and the production of language differences in the United States. The article explores the possibility that such language histories of white ethnic groups might provide grounds for creating what Malea Powell calls “a rhetoric and composition alliance.”

Journal: College English
Published: 2013-07-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201323835
Open Access: Closed
Topics: qualitative research translingualism multilingual writers voice and style

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