Description: Taming Babel : Language in the Making of Malaysia, Hardcover by Leow, Rachel, ISBN 1107148537, ISBN-13 9781107148536, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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. Th 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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Book Title: Taming Babel : Language in the Making of Malaysia
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Taming Babel : Language in the Making of Malaysia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Southeast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese), Asia / Southeast Asia, Chinese, Public Policy / Social Policy, Linguistics / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Rachel Leow
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover