How is language a means of exercising power? In what ways do powerful groups use language to maintain and increase their power? How can marginalized groups use language to protect themselves? What does this say about the movement to make English the official language of the United States? Objective Improve reading and text analyzing skills. Learn how speakers of French and English engaged in a power struggle between the languages and the social systems they supported. Learn how other languages, including Kréyol and those from Africa, were suppressed. Learn how suppressed languages can be means Duration: 90 Minutes.