Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia / Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge.
Leow, Rachel, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
P119.32.M4 L46 2016
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Title Taming Babel : language in the making of Malaysia / Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge.
Author Leow, Rachel, author.
ISBN 9781316669143 (electronic bk.)
1316669149 (electronic bk.)
9781107148536
1107148537
9781316602607
1316602605
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages.)
Call Number P119.32.M4 L46 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.44/9595
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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