Language, Society, and the State : : From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan / / Gareth Price.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Price, Gareth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXIII, 264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Preface --; List of Acronyms --; 1. Language, society, and the state: Defining the terrain --; 2. Towards a political sociology of language --; 3. The coming of the state: Taiwan encounters China and Europe --; 4. State against society: The Japanese and KMT regimes --; 5. Democratization, pluralism, and multilingualism --; 6. Globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Languages in Taiwan --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614514640; 9783110649826; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110742978; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610307; 9783110606287
• ISSN: 2364-4303
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614514640
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gareth Price.

Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic data and a comparative-historical method the book illustrates how language mediates interactions between society and the state and becomes politicized as a result; how language, politics and power are intertwined processes; and how these processes are not isolated in institutions but socially embedded.