Overview
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.