National Language Planning & Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities
Title | National Language Planning & Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities PDF eBook |
Author | International Institute for Asian Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language arts |
ISBN | 9789089642714 |
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Language Policy Challenges in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
Title | Language Policy Challenges in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Saran Kaur Gill |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2013-12-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9400779666 |
Set in Malaysia, this book encompasses language and cultural policy challenges that many other multi-ethnic nations currently have to address. The people of Malaysia constitute a diverse ethnic, linguistic and cultural population and one of the continuing challenges is the development and establishment of the Malaysian people’s ethnic, national and global cultural identities. This challenge is evident in the journey of language and cultural policy from the post-independence period to the 21st century; a period of over 50 years. The book highlights political, socio-cultural, economic and knowledge economy factors as they impact on decisions made by the government with regard to language policy in the various educational systems. It examines decisions made on the selection of the national language, the medium of instruction in educational systems, the varying changes in language policy for the field of science and technology and the maintenance and sustenance of minority languages.
Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia
Title | Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Hanan Aldoukhi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 160 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9819996430 |
Taming Babel
Title | Taming Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Leow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316668541 |
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.
Language, Education and Nation-building
Title | Language, Education and Nation-building PDF eBook |
Author | P. Sercombe |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137455535 |
This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.
Language Planning in Southeast Asia
Title | Language Planning in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Language planning |
ISBN |
Language and Language Situation in Southeast Asia
Title | Language and Language Situation in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Asmah Haji Omar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Cultural pluralism |
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