The ideological landscape of Singapore English: Citizen representations of Singlish in forum letters

• Main Author: Tan, Samuel Wei Jian
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Course Assignment (CA)
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language policy; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Diglossia; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Colloquial language; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Discourse analysis; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Public opinion; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Anthropology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69919
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore English ranks among the most ideologically contested varieties of World Englishes. Conflicting ideological conceptions of its two broadly differentiable sub-varieties – Standard Singapore English (SSE) and Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) – between institutional and individual actors, ha...