A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalism

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Springer, Nov 29, 2012 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 245 pages
What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of language.
 

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
The Hainanese Hainanhua Critical commentary Indian identity The Tamils
Syncretic
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reasons and implications
The Use of LinguaFrancas and Language Choice Bazaar Malay Singapore English SE
Plurality intheMaking Ethnic and occupational compartmentalization
Engagement
Negotiating Solidarity
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Notes
References
Index
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PHYLLIS CHEW is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore, where she has taught Literacy and Sociolinguistics for the last 25 years. An applied linguist, she has served on the international advisory boards of Teaching Education, Malaysian English Language Teaching Journal, the International Journal of Language Studies, Asian EFL Journal, Asia Tefl Journal and Gendering Asia. She was the 2010-2011 Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard University, USA.