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Circulating Discourses of Minority Education: The Linguistic Construction of Modernity in Globalizing T aiwan
Author(s) -
Lin Shumin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12088
Subject(s) - modernity , sociology , identity (music) , conflation , gender studies , reproduction , production (economics) , aesthetics , linguistics , political science , law , ecology , philosophy , economics , biology , macroeconomics
Drawing on 15 months of fieldwork in T aiwan, this article analyzes circulating discourses and practices across heterogeneous scales that conflate T aiwanese 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 T aiwan's modern 21st‐century identity. Through this construction of the linguistic Other, Taiwan asserts itself as an already modern society.