The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
Title | The Making of Vernacular Singapore English PDF eBook |
Author | Zhiming Bao |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2015-08-14 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107022088 |
Charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. This study will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
Title | The Making of Vernacular Singapore English PDF eBook |
Author | Zhiming Bao |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2015-08-14 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1316351866 |
Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a great deal about what happens when very different types of language come together. Sociolinguists are also interested in the relative status of Singapore English compared to other languages in the country. This book charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. It identifies novel grammatical features of the language, discusses their structure and function, and traces their origins to the local languages of Singapore. It places grammatical system and usage at the core of the analysis, and shows that introspective and corpus data are complementary. This study will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Singapore English
Title | Singapore English PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob R. E. Leimgruber |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2013-05-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107355257 |
In recent years the study of English and its global varieties has grown rapidly as a field of study. The English language in Singapore, famous for its vernacular known as 'Singlish', is of particular interest to linguists because it takes accent, dialect and lexical features from a wide range of languages including Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien and Tamil, as well as being influenced by the Englishes of Britain, Australia and America. This book gives a comprehensive overview of English in Singapore by setting it within a historical context and drawing on recent developments in the field of indexicality, world Englishes and corpus research. Through application of the indexicality framework Jakob Leimgruber offers readers a new way of thinking about and analysing the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English. This book is ideal for researchers and advanced students interested in Singapore and its languages.
The Use of Vernacular in Fiction Written in English in Singapore and Malaysia
Title | The Use of Vernacular in Fiction Written in English in Singapore and Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Yap |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Topicalization in Asian Englishes
Title | Topicalization in Asian Englishes PDF eBook |
Author | Sven Leuckert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351000411 |
Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics This monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-language varieties of English and provides an in-depth analysis of the forms, functions, and frequencies of topicalization in four Asian Englishes. Topicalization, that is, the sentence-initial placement of constituents other than the subject, has been found to occur frequently in the English spoken by many Asians, but so far the possible reasons for this have never been scrutinized. This book closes this research gap by taking into account the structures of the major contact languages, the roles of second-language acquisition and politeness as well as other factors in order to explain why topicalization is highly frequent in some varieties such as Indian English and much less frequent in other varieties such as Hong Kong English. In addition to exploring major and minor forces involved in explaining the frequency of topicalization, the forms and functions of the feature are assessed. Central questions addressed in this regard are the following: Which syntactic constituents tend to be topicalized the most and the least frequently? Which discourse effects does topicalization achieve? How can we approach topicalization methodologically? And, lastly, which influence do language processing and production have on topicalization?
Multilingual Development
Title | Multilingual Development PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Siemund |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108844022 |
Explores the multilingual upbringing and development of individuals in their respective societies, focusing on English as a global language.
Singapore English
Title | Singapore English PDF eBook |
Author | David Deterding |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2007-08-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748630961 |
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage. All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data from the Lim Siew Hwee Corpus of Informal Singapore Speech, as well as some extracts from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore Speech and recent blogs. In addition, usage patterns found in the data are summarised, to provide a solid foundation for the reported occurrence of various features of the language. A full transcript of the data is included in the final chapter of the book.