From Mouth to Mind

How China's Language Regime Shapes Mass Political Psychology
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-951848-7
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Contributions to Political Science

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hu, Yue

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).