Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). Combining field data gathered through a series of detailed interviews with available classroom observations, the study focuses on six adolescents from different ethnic and social backgrounds as they negotiate the learning of English against the backdrop of multilingual Singapore. This book provides social explanations for the difficulties and challenges these adolescents face by drawing on current developments in sociolinguistics, literacy studies, English language teaching and language policy.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic Markets
Chapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A Portrait
Chapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of Identity
Chapter 4: Some Data about our Data
Chapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent Markets
Chapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the Classroom
Chapter 7: Sha: A Comparison
Chapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And Identity
Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore
About the author
Lionel Wee is a linguist in the Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore. He is interested in language policy (especially in Southeast Asia), the grammar of Singapore English, metaphorical discourse, and general issues in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. He sits on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics, English World-Wide and Multilingual Margins. His recent publications include The Singlish Controversy: Language, Identity and Culture in a Globalizing World (2018) and Language, Space, and Cultural Play: Theorizing Affect in the Semiotic Landscape (2019, co-authored with Robbie Goh), both with Cambridge University Press.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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