Publications

Publication details [#27655]

Pennycook, Alastair. 2002. Mother tongues, governmentality, and protectionism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (154) : 11–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language dominance | language policy | language status | vernacular

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, British | Malay

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the mother tongue issue as a colonial language policy strategy, using as an examplary case British language strategies deployed in Hong Kong and Malaya.