Language, nation and development in Southeast Asia

Language, nation and development in Southeast Asia

by Lee, Hock Guan Suryadinata, Leo

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Evaluates the successes and drawbacks of language policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar, especially the ways in which these policies have often been resisted or contested.

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  • Full title :Language, nation and development in Southeast Asia / edited by Lee Hock Guan, Leo Suryadinata.

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Evaluates the successes and drawbacks of language policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar, especially the ways in which these policies have often been resisted or contested.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

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Notes

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789812304834, 9812304835
  • oclc:ocn369150224
  • LC Classification:P119.32.S64
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8

Table of Contents

Language, nation and development in the Philippines -- Andrew Gonzalez -- Go back to class: the medium of instruction debate in the Philippines -- T. Ruanni F. Tupas -- National language and nation-building: the case of Bahasa Indonesia -- Lucy R. Montolalu and Leo Suryadinata -- Diverse voices: Indonesian literature and nation-building -- Melani Budianta -- The multilingual state in search of the nation: the language policy and discourse in Singapore's nation-building -- Eugene K.B. Tan -- Ethnic politics, national development and language policy in Malaysia -- Lee Hock Guan -- The politics of language policy in Myanmar: imagining togetherness, practising difference? -- Kyaw Yin Hlaing -- The positions of non-Thai languages in Thailand -- Theraphan Luangthongkum -- Vietnamese language and media policy in the service of deterritorialized nation-building -- Ashley Carruthers.

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Subjects

Asie du Sud-Est -- Congrès. -- Langues Asie du Sud-Est -- Congrès. -- Relation… Conference papers and proceedings Ethnic relations Language and languages -- Political asp… Language policy Language policy -- Congresses. -- South… Southeast Asia Southeast Asia -- Congresses. -- Ethnic… Southeast Asia -- Congresses. -- Langua…

Writers

Lee, Hock Guan Suryadinata, Leo

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