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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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