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.
Dr. Price's research has appeared in Language in Society, Language Policy, and the Journal of Language and Politics, and he has written for a variety of media outlets, including The Guardian. 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, Privileged Strangers: Imaginations of (Im)mobilities in Expatriate Discourse, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.