Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts

Book Overview

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly the tensions between the demands of globalization and local identity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805856935
• ISBN13: 9780805856934
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"