Analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the US and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives. This book explores parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the countries, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other.

This volume critically analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the United States and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives. The focus of this book is to explore parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the two countries, especially in the past four decades, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other. Effects of language policies and practices on majority and minority individuals and groups are evaluated. Differences in national and regional language...