Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Hock Guan Lee, Leo Suryadinata.
Language policies in Southeast Asia have been shaped by the process of nation-building on the one hand and by political and economic considerations on the other. The early years of nation-building in Southeast Asia generated intensive language conflicts precisely because state policies privileged th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Contributors
- Keynote Address
- Introduction
- 1 Language, Nation and Development in the Philippines
- 2 Go Back to Class: The Medium of Instruction Debate in the Philippines
- 3 National Language and Nation-Building: The Case of Bahasa Indonesia
- 4 Diverse Voices: Indonesian Literature and Nation-Building
- 5 The Multilingual State in Search of the Nation: The Language Policy and Discourse in Singapore’s Nation-Building
- 6 Ethnic Politics, National Development and Language Policy in Malaysia
- 7 The Politics of Language Policy in Myanmar: Imagining Togetherness, Practising Difference?
- 8 The Positions of Non-Thai Languages in Thailand
- 9 Vietnamese Language and Media Policy in the Service of Deterritorialized Nation-Building
- Index