Gareth O. Price, Visiting Assistant Professor

Dr. Gareth Price is a sociolinguist and political sociologist who completed a jointly-supervised PhD at the University of Essex. At Duke, his teaching includes the core course Introduction to Linguistics, as well as courses in language policy, language and culture, language and migration, language and media, and critical discourse analysis. He is also a faculty member of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.

His research on neoliberalism and English-spread has been published in Language in Society; an article on language policy and transitional justice was published in Language Policy in 2020; and an article on the discursive construction of the state in ISIS' political communications (co-authored with Tara Mooney) was published in the Journal of Language and Politics in 2022. His book Language, Society, and the State: From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan was published by de Gruyter Mouton in 2019, and came out in paperback in 2021.

He is currently working on a second book project, provisionally titled Expats: Discourses of Privilege and Precarity in South-East Asia, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

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Web Page:	http://duke.academia.edu/GarethPrice

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• LINGUIST 372S.01, LANGUAGE AND/IN THE MEDIA Synopsis

  Languages 207, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 372S.01, SOCIOL 372S.01)

• LINGUIST 471S.01, LANGUAGE AND POLITICS Synopsis

  Languages 207, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as PUBPOL 208S.01, SES 484S.01, SOCIOL 471S.01)

Office Hours:

Office hours are available by appointment, generally on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 3.30pm - 5.00pm.

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Essex (United Kingdom)	2009
MA Sociolinguistics	University of Essex	2004

Specialties:

Linguistics

Research Interests: Language policy; sociolinguistics; multilingualism; discourse analysis; political sociology; migration; nationalism; globalization

Current projects: Current Projects

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Keywords:

Critical discourse analysis • Discourse analysis • English language--Discourse analysis • Gareth • language • Language policy • linguistics • migration • policy • Political sociology • Price • sociolinguistics • Sociolinguistics

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. G. O. Price, Language, Society and the State: From Colonization to Globalization in Taiwan (To appear 2015), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
2. Price, G, English for all? Neoliberalism, globalization, and language policy in Taiwan, Language in Society, vol. 43 no. 5 (November, 2014), pp. 567-589, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
3. G. O. Price, Review of Phillip Seargeant: The Idea of English in Japan, Language Policy 10(3) (2011), pp. 269-271
4. G. O. Price, Review of Elizabeth Kaske: The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919, Language Policy, vol. 9(3) (2010), pp. 281-283
5. G.O. Price, Decoding "Benefits Street": How Britain was divided by a TV show, The Guardian (February 22, 2014) [benefits-street-tv-programme-divided-the-nation]
6. G.O. Price, Pamela Geller: Most unwanted, Huffington Post (June 27, 2013) [html]
7. G.O. Price, The dark reality of secession fantasy, Huffington Post (November 19, 2012) [html]
8. G.O. Price, Do they hate us for our freedom of hate speech?, Huffington Post (September 17, 2012) [html]
9. G.O. Price, You didn't say that, Huffington Post (September 4, 2012) [html]
10. G.O. Price, Too much for the subway? (Segment on hate speech and Islamophobia), Huffington Post Live (2012) [5059df312b8c2a741a00043f]
11. G.O. Price, Healthy start for Olympics, News & Observer (August 3, 2012) [html]
12. G.O. Price, Occupy Wall Street as a fable people can relate to, Seattle Times (October 6, 2011) [html]