The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss

Hernández Chávez, Eduardo

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dc.creator	Hernández Chávez, Eduardo
dc.date	1989-01-01
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-16T16:43:47Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-16T16:43:47Z
dc.identifier	https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/447
dc.identifier	10.21670/ref.1989.18-19.a07
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/253884
dc.description	The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson analysis of linguistic human rights is used as a basis for understanding language replacement phenomena in the United States. Use of Spanish in Chicano communities is shifting rapidly to English despite the huge numbers of recent immigrants who are dominant in Spanish. Accompanying this shift is a precipitous loss of proficiency by Spanish speakers. Such replacement of a language does not depend on personal choices made by speakers, but on the socio-political conditions within the country. Political goals of profits, exploitation, and hegemony drive classist, racist and ethnicist policies whose purpose is to neutralize resistance to the status quo. These are couched in liberal-sounding myths that justify linguicism, which strives to suppress minority cultures and to acculturate their members in order to pacify perceived ethnic group conflict. The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson Linguicism Continuumn is used to demonstrate the degree of linguistic repression in selected U.S. institutions.	en-US
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad Autónoma de Baja California	es-ES
dc.relation	https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/447/673
dc.rights	Derechos de autor 2015 Estudios Fronterizos Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades	es-ES
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	es-ES
dc.source	Estudios Fronterizos Revista; No. 18-19 (1989); 123-135	en-US
dc.source	Estudios Fronterizos; Núm. 18-19 (1989); 123-135	es-ES
dc.source	2395-9134
dc.source	0187-6961
dc.subject	Linguicism	en-US
dc.subject	minority cultures	en-US
dc.subject	acculturation	en-US
dc.subject	border	en-US
dc.subject	Language Arts	en-US
dc.subject	language	en-US
dc.subject	Language acquisition	en-US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en-US
dc.subject	Ethnology	en-US
dc.subject	Culture and cultural processes	en-US
dc.subject	Social sciences	en-US
dc.subject	Sociology	en-US
dc.subject	culture	en-US
dc.subject	migrants	en-US
dc.subject	International relations	en-US
dc.subject	International cultural relations	en-US
dc.title	The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss	en-US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type	Explanatory research	en-US