Abstract

Language policy generally is framed in terms of rational choice, but this ignores the interplay of material and symbolic resources and the role of ideologies of language, culture, class, and nation in organizing the social and the moral order. Using examples from Canada, this article shows how dis-citizenship is a matter of struggle over access to resources, framed within the dominant ideologies of language and culture connected to the workings of the nation-state.

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