Language, Society, and the State - From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan

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.

About the author

Gareth Price, Duke University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Price
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2021
• EAN: 9781501526510
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-2651-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 19 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 483 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w ill., 10 b/w tbl.
• Series: ISSN; Language and Social Life [LSL]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics