Investigating the sociolinguistic variation of Colloquial Singapore English ('Singlish') in online Singaporean chat groups

• Main Author: Ting, Tricia Wen Xian
• Other Authors: Kingsley Bolton
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73501
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Language variation has been an integral part of sociolinguistics, and early studies largely focused on the variation in speech explained by such variables such as gender, age and ethnicity. More recently, studies have looked beyond face-to-face speech and explored variation in computer-mediated comm...