From Mouth to Mind

This book explores how a state uses language policy to impact public political mindset and attitudes.

Based on a comprehensive examination through survey analyses, experiments, and computer-assisted text analyses, this book demonstrates that the state can use language policy as a political tool to influence how citizens think and feel about politics and governments.

The influences are comprehensively delivered through listening, speaking, and reading/writing the official, dialect, and foreign languages.

This book contributes to political science, and even the entire social science by justifying the important role of language in human social and political lives and turning the research focus from language content to language context.

Is the first examination of how the 60-year language policy influences the mass political attitudes in modern China Explores how authoritarian governments use language policy to impact public political trust Demonstrates that authoritarian governments can use language policy as a political tool

Autorentext

Yue Hu, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tsinghua University. His research interests primarily lie in political psychology, political linguistics, and political communication. He focuses on the psychological mechanisms through which structural features, such as language regime and economic inequality, affect people's political perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. He also researches political methodology (esp. survey experiments, latent variable analysis, and computational political science) and international relations (soft power and public diplomacy).

Inhalt

The Political Linguistics of Chinese Language Regime.- The Official Language Field in China: An Data-Based Overview.- How an Official Language Shapes Mindsets: The Effects.- etc.