“Aiyo! Why like that?” The case of gender and Singlish interjections in text messaging

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lai, Jamie Huiying
• مؤلفون آخرون: Stefanie Stadler
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76688
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines whether gender affects the use of Singlish interjections. Little is known about the way Singlish interjections are used, as most studies on gender and interjections are focused on the Western context. In addition, no study in Singapore has been conducted to examine this word c...