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Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia
Antonio L. Rappa
Lionel Wee Hock An
其他書名
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand
出版
Springer Science & Business Media
, 2006-06-15
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Political Science / General
Foreign Language Study / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Political Science / History & Theory
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
ISBN
0387321861
9780387321868
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FTHxIsFSfDUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Source: CIA World Factbook, 2005 In this book, our goal is to understand how the language policies of various nation-states in Southeast Asia grapple with the challenge of modernity. Our focus will therefore be on language policies as these are explicitly articulated either in the form of constitutions or public proclamations made by political leaders. We do not RAPPA AND WEE: LANGUAGE POLICY AND MODERNITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 2 deny that language policies can be implicit (Spolsky, 2004:s) since ideologies about language are prevalent regardless of whether these lead to overt policy formulations or not. However, our interest is in the attempts by Southeast-Asian nation-states to maintaidlegitimize particular 'nationalist imaginations' (cf. Anderson, 1991), and such attempts are best seen in the kinds of explicit declarations made by agents of the state. It seems clear that our objective includes the question of how these nation-states manage the spread of the English language, since English is often seen as the language of modernity par excellence (May, 2001).