In Search of Lingua Franca: The Myths of English Only

Publication Date

4-2008

Type of Culminating Activity

Thesis

Degree Title

Master of Arts in English, Rhetoric and Composition

Department

English

Supervisory Committee Chair

Gail Shuck

Supervisory Committee Member

Heidi Estrem

Supervisory Committee Member

Devan Cook

Abstract

In 2006, there were two seemingly unrelated debates in the news: the construction of the great wall of Mexico, and an upsurge in English-Only legislation. As I watched news reporters and magazine articles flip between the two as if they existed apart from each other, I was surprised that no one was pitting the two together to find out what was really going on.

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