Readings

• Read Gal, Susan. 1978. Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community.' Language in Society, 7.1-16.
• Ronkin, Maggie and Karn, Helen E. 1999. Mock Ebonics: Linguistic racism in parodies of Ebonics on the Internet. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 3:3. 360-380.

Some more resources

Geoffrey Nunberg's Fresh Air commentary on the National Language issue.

Nunberg's website has a bunch of great commentaries on language.

James Crawford's Language Policy Site

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