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The Singlish controversy : language, culture and identity in a globalizing world /
An exploration of the controversies surrounding Singlish and how they illuminate wider issues of identity and language in the context of globalization.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Questions about the Singlish Controversy; 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 ChutzpahThe 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; References; Index.