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English in New Cultural Contexts
Author | : Joseph Foley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book explores the spread of English as a world language and the different ways in which the language has developed and adaapted in new sociocultural contexts.
Singapore English
Author | : David Deterding |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748630961 |
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage. All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data from the Lim Siew Hwee Corpus of Informal Singapore Speech, as well as some extracts from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore Speech and recent blogs. In addition, usage patterns found in the data are summarised, to provide a solid foundation for the reported occurrence of various features of the language. A full transcript of the data is included in the final chapter of the book.
Singapore English
Author | : Jakob R. E. Leimgruber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107027306 |
This book offers readers a new way of thinking about the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English.
English in Singapore
Author | : Lisa Lim |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9888028421 |
English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and status of English in Singapore in modern times, and for doing so in a treatment that involves a critical evaluation of work in the field and new and thought-provoking angles for reviewing such issues in the context of Singapore in the twenty-first century. The contributions address the historical trajectory of English (past, present and possible future), its position in relation to language policy and multiculturalism, the relationship between the standard and colloquial varieties, and how English can and should be taught. This book is thus essential reading for scholars and students concerned with how the dynamics of the English language are played out and managed in a modern society such as Singapore. It will also interest readers who have a more general interest in Asian studies, the sociology of language, and World Englishes.
The Culture of Singapore English
Author | : Jock Wong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107033241 |
A semantic, pragmatic and cultural interpretation of Singapore English, offering a fascinating glimpse of Singaporean life.
Singapore English
Author | : Lisa Lim |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027248930 |
Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the contributions in this volume not only provide comprehensive and systematic descriptions of the structural features characterising colloquial Singapore English of the young, native speaker of today, but also propose the likely substrate sources of these features through insightful linguistic and historical examination. Clearly illustrating the particular rules of grammar that characterise Singapore English as a variety in its own right, this volume presents its evolution as a perfectly natural linguistic phenomenon which is best understood within the multiethnic and multilingual society that Singapore is and has been for the past two centuries. Theoretical linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists, variationists, typologists and creolists, as well as those involved in education and policy-making, should find this description relevant and vital.
English in Singapore
Author | : David Deterding |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Conversation analysis |
ISBN | : 9780071247276 |
This book is a collection of articles on research into the pronunciation of Singapore English by scholars from Singapore, Asia (Japan, Taiwan), Europe (the United Kingdom, Germany), Australia and the United States of America. The articles in this new collection focus on two broad areas: § specific features of Singapore English pronunciation: vowels, consonants, stress and intonation § the intelligibility of Singapore English to listeners from around the world The second area is of great interest to Singaporeans as it is important to ascertain how intelligible this prominent and vibrant Asian variety of English is internationally and not just intra-nationally. The common feature of all the articles is that they make use of data from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore English, which consists of high-quality recordings that are ideally suited to detailed phonetic research. Therefore, even though the researchers are investigating a wide range of different topics connected with pronunciation, all the studies maintain a focus on the same corpus of data. The book is accompanied by two CD-ROMs, one containing the whole corpus and another containing the extracts used in the chapters. The CD-ROMs will be useful to any reader who wishes to listen to the actual speech samples used by the researchers. The final chapter of the book is a bibliography of over 250 references on research into the pronunciation of Singapore English. The book will be of great value to researchers, and post-graduate and undergraduate students of the phonetics of world varieties of English.
The Step-tongue
Author | : Anthea Fraser Gupta |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853592294 |
In Singapore, multilingualism is the norm, and English (often the local variety) is widely acquired and used. This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have English as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed.