The change in Singlish : investigating the effects of a changing language ecology on the Singlish lexicon through Singapore-produced media

• Main Author: Chew, Jorene Jo Ee
• Other Authors: Francis Bond
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::Linguistics; Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language policy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138317
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singlish is well-known as a colloquial variety of English unique to Singapore heavily influenced by the variety of languages that make up our linguistic ecology. Accordingly, much attention has been paid to this variety that some consider ‘broken’. However, while many have researched its status and/...