Most Americans and populations worldwide take for granted that English is
the national language of the US and the lingua franca of the world. However,
like any language, English and its dominant status is a socially and politically
motivated construct (Cooper 1989; Phillipson 2010). As scholars have established, the American Anglo-Saxon colonists quickly emerged as a dominant
political force, gradually establishing English as the official language in the
public domain and imposing English through explicit or implicit language
policies on the linguistically and ethnically diverse peoples encountered during the pursuit of Manifest Destiny in North America, including: Native Americans; involuntary immigrants (enslaved Africans); territorial minorities (e.g.,
Mexicans, Cajuns); and voluntary immigrants from all over the world, among
others (Crawford 1992; Pavlenko 2002).
Most Americans and populations worldwide take for granted that English is
the national language of the US and the lingua franca of the world. However,
like any language, English and its dominant status is a socially and politically
motivated construct (Cooper 1989; Phillipson 2010). As scholars have established, the American Anglo-Saxon colonists quickly emerged as a dominant
political force, gradually establishing English as the official language in the
public domain and imposing English through explicit or implicit language
policies on the linguistically and ethnically diverse peoples encountered during the pursuit of Manifest Destiny in North America, including: Native Americans; involuntary immigrants (enslaved Africans); territorial minorities (e.g.,
Mexicans, Cajuns); and voluntary immigrants from all over the world, among
others (Crawford 1992; Pavlenko 2002).
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