The Anatomy of Singlish: Globalisation, Multiculturalism and the Construction of the "Local" in Singapore

Autor/in	Goh, Robbie B. H.
Titel	The Anatomy of Singlish: Globalisation, Multiculturalism and the Construction of the "Local" in Singapore
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37 (2016) 8, S.748-758 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2015.1133628
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Cultural Pluralism; Self Concept; Language Attitudes; Creoles; Foreign Countries; Social Media; Language Planning; Political Attitudes; Pragmatics; Semiotics; Discourse Analysis; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Kulturpluralismus; Selbstkonzept; Sprachverhalten; Kreole; Ausland; Soziale Medien; Sprachwechsel; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Pragmalinguistik; Semiotik; Diskursanalyse; Singapur
Abstract	Singlish -- "the name given to the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore" [Wee, Lionel. 2014. "Linguistic Chutzpah and the Speak Good Singlish Movement." "World Englishes" 33 (1): 85-99], incorporating Chinese dialect (particularly Hokkien) and Malay lexical and grammatical elements -- has for some time been the antagonist in a cultural war of linguistic prescription (which has also targeted Chinese dialects) waged by the government. Some scholars have pointed out that apart from contestations about grammaticality and "brokenness", Singlish is also the site of contestation about identity politics in a post-colonial national setting. In more recent years, with the rise of discourses in social media critical of some government policies, as well as the increasing contestation of Singaporean identity in a transnational era, Singlish has increasingly been mobilised to mount a more grim note of sociopolitical discontent. This role is reinforced by Singlish's status as a creole of "the body", an affective discourse of visceral responses that thus defines an entrenched and conservative local community and identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01