Language, Society, and the 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 [LSL] ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Taiwan.

Sociolinguistics.

Taiwan--Languages--Political aspects.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781614514640

161451464X

9781501500442

1501500449

OCLC:

1110720550