Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts

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. A particular feature is the inclusion of countries that have been under-represented in the research literature, such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Korea. The book is organized in three sections:

• Globalization and its Impact on Language Policies, Culture, and Identity
• Language Policy and the Social (Re)construction of National Cultural Identity
• Language Policy and Language Politics: The Role of English.