The linguistic landscape around community clubs in Singapore

Existing research on the linguistic landscape of Singapore, be it on the language choices on multilingual shop signs, or on government-regulated multilingual signs, all reveal and discuss the dominance of English in Singapore’s linguistic landscape. However, little research has been conducted compar...

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Main Author: Lin, Beatrice Zi Xin
Other Authors: Werner Botha
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-765382019-12-10T13:36:44Z The linguistic landscape around community clubs in Singapore Lin, Beatrice Zi Xin Werner Botha School of Humanities DRNTU::Humanities::Language Existing research on the linguistic landscape of Singapore, be it on the language choices on multilingual shop signs, or on government-regulated multilingual signs, all reveal and discuss the dominance of English in Singapore’s linguistic landscape. However, little research has been conducted comparing government (official) and non-government (non-official) produced signs to examine the extent to which both sides influence the landscape as a whole. It is acknowledged that Singapore’s linguistic landscape provides insight into how multilingualism is conceptualized and handled differently by the government and their people. Thus, in taking and analysing photographic data from the surroundings of five Community Clubs in Singapore, this study seeks to provide more insight into the languages used in the linguistic landscape of Singapore. The results reaffirm previous findings of the dominance of English but provides an in-depth understanding of the extent of its dominance across both official and non-official signs. Furthermore, this study categorized signs based on whether they are monolingual, bilingual or multilingual, in order to determine how multilingualism manifests itself in the linguistic landscape. Although monolingual English signs dominate the landscape in general, significant differences exist in the appearance rate of bilingual and multilingual signs across the different areas surveyed. Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies 2019-03-26T02:08:46Z 2019-03-26T02:08:46Z 2019 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76538 en Nanyang Technological University 49 p. application/pdf
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The linguistic landscape around community clubs in Singapore
description Existing research on the linguistic landscape of Singapore, be it on the language choices on multilingual shop signs, or on government-regulated multilingual signs, all reveal and discuss the dominance of English in Singapore’s linguistic landscape. However, little research has been conducted comparing government (official) and non-government (non-official) produced signs to examine the extent to which both sides influence the landscape as a whole. It is acknowledged that Singapore’s linguistic landscape provides insight into how multilingualism is conceptualized and handled differently by the government and their people. Thus, in taking and analysing photographic data from the surroundings of five Community Clubs in Singapore, this study seeks to provide more insight into the languages used in the linguistic landscape of Singapore. The results reaffirm previous findings of the dominance of English but provides an in-depth understanding of the extent of its dominance across both official and non-official signs. Furthermore, this study categorized signs based on whether they are monolingual, bilingual or multilingual, in order to determine how multilingualism manifests itself in the linguistic landscape. Although monolingual English signs dominate the landscape in general, significant differences exist in the appearance rate of bilingual and multilingual signs across the different areas surveyed.
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