TY - BOOK AU - Price,Gareth TI - Language, Society, and the State: From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan T2 - Language and Social Life [LSL] , SN - 9781614516682 AV - P119.32.T28 U1 - 306.44951249 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Taiwan KW - Politische Soziologie KW - Soziolinguistik KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Political Sociology KW - Politics of Language N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Preface --; List of Acronyms --; 1. Language, society, and the state: Defining the terrain --; 2. Towards a political sociology of language --; 3. The coming of the state: Taiwan encounters China and Europe --; 4. State against society: The Japanese and KMT regimes --; 5. Democratization, pluralism, and multilingualism --; 6. Globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Languages in Taiwan --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514640 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614514640 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614514640/original ER -