Taming Babel

Taming Babel
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781107148536
ISBN-13 : 1107148537
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Download or read book Taming Babel written by Rachel Leow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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