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Taming Babel

- Language in the Making of Malaysia
Af: Rachel Leow Engelsk Hardback

Taming Babel

- Language in the Making of Malaysia
Af: Rachel Leow Engelsk Hardback
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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 subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion.
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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 subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 280
ISBN-13: 9781107148536
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1107148537
Udg. Dato: 14 jul 2016
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 162mm
Forlag: Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 jul 2016
Forfatter(e): Rachel Leow
Forfatter(e) Rachel Leow


Kategori National selvstændighed og uafhængighed, postkolonialisme


ISBN-13 9781107148536


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 280


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 236mm


Højde 162mm


Udg. Dato 14 jul 2016


Oplagsdato 14 jul 2016


Forlag Cambridge University Press