Circulating discourses of minority education: The linguistic construction of modernity in globalizing Taiwan

Shumin Lin

doi:10.1111/aeq.12088

Circulating discourses of minority education: The linguistic construction of modernity in globalizing Taiwan

Shumin Lin^*

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Institute of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

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Abstract

Drawing on 15 months of fieldwork in Taiwan, this article analyzes circulating discourses and practices across heterogeneous scales that conflate Taiwanese minority-language elders with foreign brides as nonmodern and childlike. The assiduous production and reproduction of historically and geographically displaced linguistic Others is part and parcel of the production of Taiwan's modern 21st-century identity. Through this construction of the linguistic Other, Taiwan asserts itself as an already modern society.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-87
Number of pages	17
Journal	Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12088
State	Published - 1 Mar 2015

Keywords

Adult literacy
Circulation
Globalization
Language ideology
Language socialization

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