This article examines the impact of the anglicizing language policies implemented after the annexation of the U.S.
borderlands to the United States on language use by describing the language and translation practices of Spanish-language
newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands across different sociohistorical periods from 1808 to 1930. Sixty Hispanic-American
newspapers (374 issues) from 1808 to 1980 were selected for analysis. Despite aggressive anglicizing legislation that caused a
societal shift of language use from Spanish into English in most borderland states after the annexation, the current study
suggests that the newspapers resisted assimilation by adhering to the Spanish language in the creation of original content and in
translation.
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