Linguistic Diversity, Communication, and Language Policy: Implications for the
Abstract
Worldwide economic and cultural exchanges have brought to bear a phenomenal level of cultural infusion and diffusion within and without the borders of the United States (Jackson, 2019). Effective intercultural communication has since become imperative for U.S. Americans as “these States” have quickly turned themselves into a multicultural and multilingual nation (Tamasi & Antieau, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to examine the current challenges facing the American English in such a linguistically diverse society where its citizens’ communication competence hinges upon their cultural and linguistic literacy. Analysis of this social phenomenon demonstrates the significant challenges facing the presently dominant status of the American English, which call for a language policy to facilitate its citizens’ gaining of a multicultural and multilinguistic literacy for developing their cultural and intercultural communication competence.