Standard Singapore English : evaluating Singapore's standard English variety

• Main Author: Nah, Vanessa Ellen Mei Yin
• Other Authors: Tan Ying Ying
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Bilingualism::Singapore; Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Diglossia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

What is Standard Singapore English (SSE)? This thesis unpacks SSE in two parts: one, SSE is a standard variety of English; and two, it is English used in Singapore. The aim is to break down the ideological “standardness” and “Singaporean-ness” of SSE to better understand what it is in the minds of i...