Negotiating gender identity through the use of Singlish.

• Main Author: Lim, Rose Chyi Yng.
• Other Authors: Kang Yoonhee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15208
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Language plays an important part in signaling the speaker’s gender identity and reinforcing his/her identity as male or female, therefore individuals use language to express gender (Trudgill, 2000). However, existing literatures of Singlish confine our understanding of this phenomenon to national id...