Changing perceptions of Singlish in Singapore

• Main Author: Yeo, Denise
• Other Authors: Tan Ying Ying
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155797
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singlish has a typically bad reputation since the government aggressively discouraged it in the late 1990s and launched the Speak Good English movement in 2000. This paper seeks to uncover the changing perceptions of Singlish in Singapore before and after the launch of the movement and does so by ex...