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Taming Babel - Language in the Making of Malaysia (Paperback)
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Taming Babel - Language in the Making of Malaysia (Paperback)
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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.
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