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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIII, 264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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