Language, Education and Nation-building: Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 207011-76093-1281
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137455536
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 9781403997463
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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B - Education, Communication and Language Sciences
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Sercombe was the editor of this volume. The introductory chapter by Sercombe provides a geographical and historical sweep across the region. Sercombe also contributes two case study chapters on Brunei and Myanmar. The edited volume documents language policy, education and nation building across South East Asia, with a special emphasis on the impact on minority languages, the tile of world languages such as English and choice of national language in a post colonial nation-building.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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