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The Singlish controversy : language, culture and identity in a globalizing world / Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore).

Author
Wee, Lionel, 1963-
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Varieties of English -- Ideology Pooling and Meta-Discursive Convergence -- The Role of Experts and the Double Hermeneutic -- Voice and the Shaping of the Controversy -- Singlish as Commodity -- Singlish, Migration and Mobility -- What Is Singlish? Conceptualizations of Language -- Organization of the Book -- 1.Language Policy in Singapore: English, Singlish and the Mother Tongues -- Independence, Nation-Building and Multiracialism -- The Positioning of English in Singapore's Language Policy -- Teaching English in Singapore -- Problematizing Singlish -- The Paradox of Linguistic Conservatism and Technological Innovation -- Conclusion -- 2.Ideology Pooling and Meta-Discursive Convergence in the Singlish Debate -- Language Ideological Debates: Conflicting and Shared Assumptions -- The Convergence of Meta-Discursive Regimes -- Singlish Has No Value -- Singlish Is Non-Elitist -- Expert Contributions to the Debate -- Conclusion -- 3.Language Experts, Linguistic Chutzpah and the Speak Good Singlish Movement -- Language Experts: Missed or Dismissed? -- Linguistic Chutzpah -- The Speak Good Singlish Movement (SGSM) -- Claims about Singlish Made by the Government -- Rebuttals from the SGSM -- The Importance of Linguistic Chutzpah -- Conclusion -- 4.Voice: Who Speaks about Singlish? -- Voice: Indexical Orders, Pretextual Gaps and the Subaltern -- An Inventory of Voices in the Singlish Controversy -- The Singlish Subaltern: Already Spoken For -- Shaping the Singlish Controversy -- Conclusion -- 5.The Commodification of Singlish -- Language, Commodification and Human Capital -- Singlish and the Culture Industries -- The Necessary Stage -- Singlish and the Non-Culture Industries -- Conclusion: Implications for the Authenticity and Ownership of Singlish -- 6.Singlish, Migration and Mobility -- Inward Migration: Foreign Workers -- Outward Migration and the Singaporean Diaspora -- Heartlanders and Cosmopolitans -- Rocky Roads of Reflexivity and Nationalist Imaginings -- Conclusion -- 7.What Is Singlish? Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World -- Static Approaches to Defining Singlish -- Towards Greater Dynamism -- Indexicality and Assemblages -- Future Directions for Linguistic Work -- Conclusion.
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ISBN
1107181712
9781107181717
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
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