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Language, Society, and the State

From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan
  • Gareth Price
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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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.

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Gareth Price, Duke University, USA.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgments

    V
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    Contents

    VII
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    Preface

    XI
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    List of Acronyms

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

    1
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    2. Towards a political sociology of language

    33
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    3. The coming of the state: Taiwan encounters China and Europe

    75
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    4. State against society: The Japanese and KMT regimes

    109
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    5. Democratization, pluralism, and multilingualism

    150
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    6. Globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration

    191
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    Epilogue

    228
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    Appendix: Languages in Taiwan

    237
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    Bibliography

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    Index

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eBook published on:
June 17, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781614514640
Hardcover published on:
June 17, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9781614516682
Paperback published on:
September 20, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9781501526510
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Front matter:
23
Main content:
264
Illustrations:
1
Tables:
10
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514640
eBook ISBN: 9781614514640
Hardcover ISBN: 9781614516682
Paperback ISBN: 9781501526510
Keywords for this book
Sociolinguistics; Politics of Language; Taiwan; Political Sociology.
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and Graduate Students in Critical Sociolinguistics, Political Sociology, and East Asian Studies.
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