Remaking Singapore: Language, Culture, and Identity in a Globalized World

Chew, Phyllis Ghim‐Lian

doi:10.4324/9781315092034-5

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“…While there is no one way to mark Singaporean identity, many local people feel that CSE is a key component. Singapore is too heterogeneous to simply depend on CSE as a token of its local identity; however, as Chew (, p. 84) observed, CSE does stand out as ‘ostensibly a part of Singaporean consciousness.’ Among the other languages in Singapore, none binds Singaporeans as tightly as CSE does. For example, Cheng et al.…”

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Colloquial Singapore English in advertisements

Hiramoto

2019

World Englishes

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Throughout the history of Singapore, Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) has been treated as an obstacle to Singaporeans’ acquisition of standardized English. The Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) was launched in 2000 to promote standardized English while discouraging the use of CSE. Nonetheless, CSE is increasingly used in local commercial advertisements by private companies. Recently, the state has also changed its firm anti‐CSE position, and begun to recognize CSE as part of the unique identity that ties Singaporeans together. Rather surprisingly, government advertisements have begun employing CSE expressions, particularly since the state's 50th anniversary in 2015. This study investigates how the use of CSE is semioticized in both government and private‐company advertisements that have appeared in recent years. The findings suggest that CSE is integrated into government advertisements as an invocation of a pan‐Singaporean identity in order to naturalize the state's larger political discourses.

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Colloquial Singapore English in advertisements

Hiramoto

2019

World Englishes

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“…The questionnaire was written in English for both nations. English is the first language in Singapore and used at work as well as nonwork settings (Chew, 2007).…”

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Coping With Workplace Bullying Through NAVER: Effects of LMX Relational Concerns and Cultural Differences

Lee

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Heath

2017

International Journal of Business Communication

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Workplace bullying inevitably has grave individual and organizational consequences, including lowered morale and productivity. Given such negative consequences, this study explored five coping strategies: neglect, acquiescence, voice, exit, and retribution (NAVER). This research examined the extent to which relational concerns such as leader-member exchanges (LMXs) and cultural variations (the United States and Singapore) affect use of the five coping strategies after controlling for actual exposure to workplace bullying, gender, and age. Findings indicated that the quality of LMX significantly influence the strategic use of acquiescence, exit, and retribution. No significant cultural variation in coping strategies was detected. LMX quality and actual experience of workplace bullying were the strongest determinants for the use of all coping strategies but exit.

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“…In the main, there is a shift towards the establishment of local varieties of English. In Singapore, for instance, an emergent campaign in 2000 promoted the shift from British Standard English to a local variety of Standard English (LSE) which is thought to be internationally intelligible (Chew, 2007). Chew's survey documents that this variety was favoured over the foreign variety by most Singaporeans.…”

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Language ecology and English as a “lingua franca” in a glocal multicultural society: opening intercultural windows

Donne

2018

EPOS

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This study is a conceptual and descriptive review of the working field of language ecology from a postmodernist perspective. It looks into the pluricentric, holistic, intercultural and multidisciplinary implications of language ecology and English as a lingua franca in a variety of EU glocal, i.e. global and local, sociolinguistic scenarios. Positing a semiotic construct of language as an open and inclusive process and a close interrelationship between language and power dynamics (Bourdieu, 1982,1986,1991), the analysis gives an overview of theoretical questions related to the import of language ecology, diversity, bi/multiligualism and the functional role of English as a lingua franca and lingua mundi in the EU, in a geocentric, contextual, action-oriented and critical approach to language as opposed to the anthropocentric, decontextualized and fractional constructs of 20th century rational structuralism. Grounded in hands-on English-teaching experience, it aims to spotlight the weaknesses of a monolingual and monocultural mindset and focuses on the dilemma between a de facto English dominance and glocal bilingual and multilingual concerns across the European Union. Capitalizing on Foucalt's inspiring paradigm of «problematization» (

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Remaking Singapore: Language, Culture, and Identity in a Globalized World

Cited by 13 publications

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Colloquial Singapore English in advertisements

Colloquial Singapore English in advertisements

Coping With Workplace Bullying Through NAVER: Effects of LMX Relational Concerns and Cultural Differences

Language ecology and English as a “lingua franca” in a glocal multicultural society: opening intercultural windows

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