‘Steady lah!’ : Singlish for solidarity

• Main Author: Nah, Vanessa Ellen Mei Yin
• Other Authors: Tan Ying Ying
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Colloquial language
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76524
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although thought to be “the ‘glue’ that binds Singaporeans together” (Cavallaro & Ng, 2009, p. 154), Singaporeans rank Singlish relatively low for solidarity in matched guise tests (Cavallaro & Ng, 2009; Cavallaro et al., 2014), and “the prestige of [Singlish] may, in fact, be entirely too c...