Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia

Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia /

"Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot...

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Main Author: Leow, Rachel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Language policy > Malaysia > History > 19th century.
Language policy > Malaysia > History > 20th century.
Multilingualism > Political aspects > Malaysia > History.
Malay language > Political aspects > Malaysia > History.
Chinese language > Political aspects > Malaysia > History.
Postcolonialism > Malaysia > History.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Chinese language > Political aspects
Language policy
Malay language > Political aspects
Multilingualism > Political aspects
Politics and government
Postcolonialism
Malaysia > Politics and government > 19th century.
Malaysia > Politics and government > 20th century
Malaysia
History
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Colonial State
  • The technocrats : challenges of governance in a polyglot society
  • The knowledge producers : taming sounds, scripts and selves
  • Part II. Word Wars
  • The lexicographers : dictionaries and the making of postwar politics
  • The propagandists : public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state
  • Part III. The Postcolonial State
  • The language planners : Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state
  • Postscript
  • Appendices
  • Glossary.

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