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  • Geschichte 1900-2000
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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107148536 , 9781316602607
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 261 Seiten , Karten
    DDC: 306.44/9595
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy History 19th century ; Language policy History 20th century ; Multilingualism Political aspects ; History ; Malay language Political aspects ; History ; Chinese language Political aspects ; History ; Postcolonialism History ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Herrschaft ; Asien ; Südostasien ; Malaysia Politics and government 19th century ; Malaysia Politics and government 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: "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. The book 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"...
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316563007
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44/9595
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 19th century ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 20th century ; Multilingualism / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Malay language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Chinese language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Postcolonialism / Malaysia / History ; Herrschaft ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 19th century ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: 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. The book 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
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Colonial State -- The technocrats : challenges of governance in a polyglot society -- The knowledge producers : taming sounds, scripts and selves -- Part II. Word Wars -- The lexicographers : dictionaries and the making of postwar politics -- The propagandists : public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state -- Part III. The Postcolonial State -- The language planners : Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Glossary
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 19
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44/09175927
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Arabic language / Political aspects ; Arabic language / Dialects ; Sociolinguistics / Arab countries ; Nationalism / Arab countries ; Arabisch ; Ethnische Identität ; Politischer Konflikt ; Mundart ; Arab countries / Politics and government / 20th century ; Naher Osten ; Naher Osten ; Arabisch ; Mundart ; Politischer Konflikt ; Ethnische Identität
    Abstract: Yasir Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or even historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in a variety of dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East, the diversity of its peoples and the diversity of their viewpoints. Suleiman's book offers a wealth of empirical material, and intriguing, often poignant illustrations of antagonisms articulated through pun or double entendre
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