Disaffiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore : the role of a non-standard variety of English language

• Main Author: Lu, Luke
• Other Authors: College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Immigration; Language Attitudes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153715
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article seeks to examine whether and how a non-standard variety of English (i.e. Singlish) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst a multinational group of academically elite students in Singapore. Using interview data when informants expressed ideologies about Singlish and Standard Englis...