Taming Babel: Language In The Making Of Malaysia

Taming Babel examines 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, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia.

• | By (Author): Rachel (University Of Cambridge) Leow
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2016
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1107148537
• | ISBN-13: 9781107148536