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.
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List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: A Sociolinguistic history of early identities in Singapore Racial Identities: Plurality in the Making Regional Identities: Separate but Undivided Religious Identities: Syncretic and Inclusive Orthographical Identities: Change and Ideology Individual Identities: Language Choice and the Use of Lingua Francas Hybrid Identities: Case Studies of Attraction and Engagement Intergenerational Identities: Negotiating Solidarity and Plurality Language, Power and Political Identities. The 1969 Singapore General Elections National Identities: The Reordering of Pluralities Notes Bibliography 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.
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