Charting the language shift from ‘dialects’ to Mandarin in Singapore through local newspaper discourses, 1840s-present

• Main Author: Tang, Xian Cher
• Other Authors: Stefanie Stadler
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76526
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the phenomenon of language shift and maintenance has been receiving increasing scholarly attention, greater focus has traditionally been placed on the experiences of minority groups. The situation in Singapore’s Chinese community paints a more interesting picture as it involves a shift from no...