: Gareth Price
: Language, Society, and the State From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781501500442
: Language and Social Life [LSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 84.90
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: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 287
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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.

Gareth Price, Duke University, USA.