Style, Identity and Literacy English in Singapore

by Stroud, Christopher; Wee, Lionel

• ISBN13: 9781847695963
• ISBN10: 1847695965
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-28
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

Style, Identity and Literacy is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction - both inside and outside the classroom - to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school).

Author Biography

Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship. Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic Markets

Chapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A Portrait

Chapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of Identity

Chapter 4: Some Data about our Data

Chapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent Markets

Chapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the Classroom

Chapter 7: Sha: A Comparison

Chapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And Identity

Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore