Taming Babel - Language in the Making of Malaysia

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Leow is a university lecturer in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge. She received two full Ph.D. scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarship Foundation and from the Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship Fund at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She was subsequently appointed as a Prize Fellow for the inaugural Prize Fellowships in Economics, Politics and History at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Klappentext Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.Taming Babel examines 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, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Colonial State: 1. The technocrats: challenges of governance in a polyglot society; 2. The knowledge producers: taming sounds, scripts and selves; Part II. Word Wars: 3. The lexicographers: dictionaries and the making of postwar politics; 4. The propagandists: public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state; Part III. The Postcolonial State: 5. The language planners: Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state; Postscript; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Leow, Rachel (University of Cambridge) Leow, Leow Rachel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781316602607
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60260-7
• No. of pages: 281
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Malaysia, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence