Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia /

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
MitwirkendeR:
Budianta, Melani,
Carruthers, Ashley,
Gonzalez, Andrew,
Guan, Lee Hock,
Gungwu, Wang,
Hlaing, Kyaw Yin,
Luangthongkum, Theraphan,
Montolalu, Lucy R.,
Suryadinata, Leo,
Tan, Eugene K.B.,
Tupas, T. Ruanni F.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lee, Hock Guan,
Suryadinata, Leo,
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

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