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The Anatomy of Singlish: Globalisation, Multiculturalism and the Construction of the "Local" in Singapore
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Goh, Robbie B. H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Singlish -- "the name given to the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore" [Wee, Lionel. 2014. "Linguistic Chutzpah and the Speak Good Singlish Movement." "World Englishes" 33 (1): 85-99], incorporating Chinese dialect (particularly Hokkien) and Malay lexical and grammatical elements -- has for some time…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Cultural Pluralism