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Nanyang Technological University
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La Trobe University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2014
DOI: 10.1111/WENG.12097
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 16-04-2019
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 18-09-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2014
DOI: 10.1111/WENG.12096
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2014
DOI: 10.1111/WENG.12092
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 24-05-2021
Abstract: This study aims to qualitatively document the histories of Singapore’s Chinese multilingual elderly. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven Chinese Singaporeans aged 75 years and above on how and why they acquired the languages they speak and their attitudes towards these linguistic varieties, of which many are declining in usage. Five participants were multilingual and spoke three or more languages fluently two spoke only two languages and were included for a balanced and holistic perspective. Common themes from the interviews were identified and discussed. One key finding was that communicative necessity and practicality naturally fuelled language learning. Outside of the home, multilingual in iduals acquired varieties from conversing with friends, relatives and customers, or as an educational requirement. Language was tied to ethnic belonging, but, generally, pride to speak a linguistic variety was linked to its functional value, not its associated ethnic identity. Unhappiness was expressed at the waning of the Chinese vernaculars and Baba Malay in Singapore today. Such language loss was seen as a sombre, but unavoidable consequence of Singapore’s globalisation and modernisation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-05-2009
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 10-08-2018
Abstract: This study aims to shed light on the attitudes of Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese nationals residing in Singapore to varieties of Mandarin Chinese. 64 Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants took matched and verbal-guise tests, evaluating recorded speakers of two varieties of Singapore Mandarin (standard and colloquial) and the variety spoken in the PRC on status and solidarity traits. These evaluations were followed by optional questionnaire items intended to probe for additional more insights into the participants’ attitudes and perceptions of one another. Both Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants assigned higher status to the PRC’s variety of Mandarin. Attitudes toward the two varieties of Singapore Mandarin, however, varied, with Singaporeans rating the standard variety higher than the colloquial variety on all traits and Chinese nationals favouring the colloquial variety. Interestingly, for all three varieties of Mandarin, solidarity traits were rated higher than status traits by all participants, suggesting that, in Singapore, Mandarin Chinese is now viewed more as a language of solidarity than status.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 28-06-2018
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 08-10-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: Using an online and touch screen interface, this paper explores language and cultural identity as a form of intangible heritage. The relationship between language and cultural identity has spawned several studies in various disciplines in the past few decades. This study represents a first attempt at visualising some of the issues relevant to cultural identity discussed by linguists, psychologists and cultural studies experts in an interdisciplinary collaboration between linguists and digital design heritage researchers and computer programmers. For the purpose of this study, an interactive program that centres on the issue of cultural identity, heritage and language was developed to engage participants. Via a touch screen, several prompts and triggers related to culture, identity and heritage were embedded for participants to choose. The engagement includes allowing the participants to emphasize one identity trait over another as well as minimising the less relevant traits. Participants explore their perception of others and themselves via touching and manipulating the onscreen text. These participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire that was designed to elicit their thoughts about the program and on the relationship between cultural identity and language. The findings indicate that the participants considered language to be a crucial element of their identity and heritage though the different ethnic groups attributed different reasons for this response. It affirmed the “Touch my heritage” multilingual identity programme as a successful way to engage participants to think about complex and abstract issues such as culture and identity.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 27-03-2023
Abstract: The few studies on Family Language Policy in Singapore (FLP) have generally focused on FLP in local and immigrant Chinese families. This article explores language policies that seem to undergird Singaporean-Japanese families’ language practices. In-depth interviews and observations with five such families showed that Japanese only functions as the language of communication between the Japanese parents and their children if parents have invoked particular language policies to support its transmission and use at home. For most families, English was the main medium of communication among family members. Language policies and practices in these families were heavily influenced by the value emplaced on each language within the parents’ linguistic repertoire and their beliefs regarding language learning.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2012
Funder: European Science Foundation
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2018
Funder: Fondation des Treilles
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2020
Funder: Ministry of Education - Singapore
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2017
End Date: 2020
Funder: Ministry of Education - Singapore
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