Language, society and state : from colonization to globalization in Taiwan / Gareth Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Gareth, author.

Series:

Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ; v. 9.

Language and social life ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Language and languages.

Taiwan--Languages--Political aspects.

Taiwan.

Sociolinguistics--Taiwan.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xxi, 264 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Language, society, and the state: Defining the terrain p. 1

1.2.1 Language, communication, and evolution p. 2

1.2.2 Naming and un-naming languages p. 4

1.2.3 Measuring linguistic diversity p. 5

1.2.4 Language, thought, and culture p. 7

1.3 The state and society: The analytical terrain of political sociology p. 9

1.3.1 On the relative autonomy of the state p. 10

1.4 The state p. 12

1.4.1 Institutions, means, and ends p. 13

1.4.2 Characteristics of the state p. 15

1.5 Society p. 22

1.5.1 Civil society p. 24

1.5.2 The civil society argument p. 26

1.5.3 The public sphere p. 29

2 Towards a political sociology of language p. 33

2.2 Language and the state p. 34

2.2.1 Language planning and policy: An overview p. 35

2.2.2 The administrative bureaucracy and the business of rule p. 39

2.2.3 Literacy p. 40

2.3 Language and colonization p. 42

2.3.1 Colonization and LPP p. 42

2.3.2 Administrative monolingualism p. 43

2.3.3 Administrative bilingualism p. 44

2.3.4 Elite bilingualism p. 45

2.3.5 Decolonization p. 46

2.4 Language and nationalism p. 48

2.4.1 Monolingualism and national identity p. 48

2.4.2 Minority languages and multilingual nationalism p. 51

2.5 Language and globalization p. 52

2.5.1 The spread of English p. 53

2.5.2 Superdiversity p. 56

2.6 Language, rights, and transitional justice p. 57

2.6.1 Language-based rights p. 58

2.6.2 Language policy and transitional justice p. 62

2.7 Language, society, and democracy p. 66

2.7.1 Minority languages and the public sphere p. 67

2.7.2 Multilingualism, pluralism, and civil society p. 71

2.7.3 Language movements and language revitalization p. 72

3 The coming of the state: Taiwan encounters China and Europe p. 75

3.2 Early Chinese encounters with indigenous Taiwan p. 76

3.3 Dutch encounters with indigenous Taiwan (1624-1662) p. 80

3.3.1 Multilingualism and political organization p. 82

3.3.2 The missionary-colonial complex p. 84

3.3.3 Vernacular literacy p. 89

3.3.4 Dutch-spread policy p. 91

3.4 Chinese influences on Taiwan (1624-1895) p. 93

3.4.1 Chinese settlement and co-colonization p. 93

3.4.2 The Zheng era (1662-1683) p. 96

3.5 The liminal state: Qing rule (1683-1895) p. 97

3.5.1 Interpreters and middlemen p. 98

3.5.2 Chinese immigration and indigenous assimilation p. 101

4 State against society: The Japanese and KMT regimes p. 109

4.2 Japanese rule (1895-1945) p. 110

4.3 Language and political reform in Meiji-era Japan p. 110

4.3.1 Genbun'itchi: Unifying speech and writing p. 111

4.4 Japanese rule of Taiwan: The contemporary modern state p. 113

4.4.1 The early years (1895-1919) p. 114

4.4.2 The doka period (1918-1937) p. 120

4.4.3 The kominka period (1937-1945) p. 125

4.5 KMT Rule and Martial Law (1945-1987) p. 128

4.5.1 The rise and fall of Nationalist China (1911-1949) p. 130

4.5.2 The sociolinguistic context of Mandarin p. 131

4.5.3 KMT rule on Taiwan (1945-1949) p. 134

4.5.4 Language policy under Governor Chen Yi p. 135

4.5.5 The 22-8 Incident and its aftermath p. 139

4.6 Martial law and the ROC in exile (1949-1987) p. 141

4.6.1 Language, the state, and nationalism p. 141

4.6.2 Language and the public sphere p. 145

5 Democratization, pluralism, and multilingualism p. 150

5.2 The context of democratic reform (1979-1987) p. 151

5.3 Language and democratization (1987-2000) p. 152

5.4 On the campaign trail p. 156

5.5 DPP language policies (2000-2008) p. 158

5.5.1 The cultural politics of bentuhua: Equality without independence p. 158

5.5.2 Status planning and transitional justice p. 161

5.5.3 Language-in-education policies p. 173

5.6 KMT policies (2008-2016) p. 183

5.6.1 De-Taiwanization and re-Sinicization p. 184

5.6.2 The social consensus p. 185

5.6.3 The Hakka Basic Law p. 187

5.6.4 Language-in-education policies: The twelve-year national curriculum p. 188

6 Globalization, neoliberatism, and immigration p. 191

6.2 English for all? Globalization, neoliberalism, and education p. 192

6.2.1 Between localism and globalism: The context of DPP English language policy p. 192

6.2.2 English as capital p. 196

6.2.3 The-earlier-the-better argument p. 204

6.2.4 The future of English p. 211

6.3 Foreign spouses, new immigrants, and "othered" languages p. 212

6.3.1 Metrolingual Taipei: Visible and invisible languages p. 213

6.3.2 Foreign workers and linguistic capital p. 215

6.3.3 Foreign spouses, language "problems", and language policy p. 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781614516682

1614516685

OCLC:

931648418

Publisher Number:

9781614516682