Title Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia / Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource (1 online (xx, 261 pages)) : maps
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: World 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.
Summary	Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.
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Subject	Language policy -- Malaysia -- History -- 19th century.
	Language policy.
	Malaysia.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Language policy -- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Multilingualism -- Political aspects -- Malaysia -- History.
	Multilingualism -- Political aspects.
	Multilingualism.
	Malay language -- Political aspects -- Malaysia -- History.
	Chinese language -- Political aspects -- Malaysia -- History.
	Malay language -- Political aspects.
	Postcolonialism -- Malaysia -- History.
	Postcolonialism.
	Malaysia -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	Politics and government.
	Malaysia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Malay language.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	Chinese language -- Political aspects.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Chinese language.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Language policy -- Malaysia -- History.
	Multilingualism -- Political aspects -- Malaysia.
	Malay language -- Political aspects -- Malaysia -- History.
	Chinese language -- Political aspects -- Malaysia -- History.
	Postcolonialism -- Malaysia -- History.
	Malaysia -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	Malaysia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Malaysia -- Languages -- Political aspects.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Leow, Rachel. Taming Babel. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107148536 (DLC) 2016016075 (OCoLC)945356527
ISBN	9781316563007 (electronic book)
	1316563006 (electronic book)
	9781316669440 (electronic book)
	1316669440 (electronic book)
	9781107148536 (hardback)
	1107148537 (hardback)
	9781316602607 (paperback)
	1316602605 (paperback)

Title Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia / Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge.

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