The Multilingual State in Search of the Nation: The Language Discourse in Singapore’s Nation-Building
Around the world, especially in Asia, languages are dying out from assimilation policies as well as from oppression of minorities. Even languages which hitherto had not been under threat now have to grapple with the realities of the dynamic and variable nature of language shifts. Language issues hav...
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Main Author: | TAN, Eugene K. B. |
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Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2007
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