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	Singlish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In old Malaya, English was the language of the British administration whilst Malay was spoken as the lingua franca of the street.
		After Singapore's independence in 1965, and sucessive "Speak Mandarin" campaigns, a subtle language shift among the post-'65 generation became more and more pronounced as Malay idiomatic expressions were (and continue to be) displaced by idioms borrowed from Chinese languages/dialects, such as Hokkien.
		Acrolectal Singaporean English is roughly the same as formal British English, with the exception of some pronunciation differences that occur due to the influence of Singlish pronunciation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singapore_Colloquial_English (5212 words)

	Travel Forum - Singapore
		The Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsula, south of the state of Johor of Peninsular Malaysia and north of the Indonesian islands of Riau.
		Singapore's main territory is a diamond-shaped island which is connected to the city of Johor Bahru in the state of Johor, Malaysia by a man-made causeway to the north.
		Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of indigenous Malay population with Chinese and Indian migrants.
	www.ttgforum.com /printthread.php?t=657 (4008 words)

	Selected publications of AFG
		Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) is the L-variety in a diglossic English where Standard English (StdE) is the H-variety.
		SCE is acquired first by the child, while StdE is introduced by the parents as the child approaches school age.
		English was developed in India as a second language for science and for career opportunities, and also as a means of promoting European cultural values.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /singapore/contributors/antheab.html (4176 words)

	Promising "Post-Colonialism": Deleuze-Guattari's "Minor Literature" and the Poetry of Arthur Yap
		I will speak of Singapore because the voice or the language of precisely that immanent interval, which is something close to the heart of this space, which consequently also means the freedom of that interval, is in the face of repression if not the beginning of its erasure today.
		As assemblage and différance, Singapore English is a stammering of standard English, affecting it with "a high coefficient of deterritorialization" in terms of phonology, syntax, and lexicology, continuously "plac[ing] [standard English] in a state of continuous variation."
		The expressive and creative force of the poem somewhat arrange Singapore English into another assemblage, where there is the liberating "becoming-imperceptible" of both the voice of the enunciation i.e.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /poldiscourse/casablanca/goh2.html (3643 words)

	Singlish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore (with Penang and Malacca) was one of the Straits Settlements.
		Singapore English probably grew out of the English of the playground of these children of various linguistic backgrounds who were learning English at school.
		It is still the case in Singapore that the younger you are and the richer your family is, the more likely you are to have English (and that usually means Singapore Colloquial English) as your native language.
	www.une.edu.au /langnet/singlish.htm (2392 words)

	The Step-tongue: Children's English in Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore Colloquial English is sharply different from Standard English, especially in syntax and morphology.
		Chapter 5 discusses the importance of the use of Singapore Colloquial English in the assessment and intervention of children in Singapore with language disorders.
		She feels that Singapore Colloquial English is crucial in maintaining racial harmony as well as national identity in Singapore, which is a multi-ethnic society (Chinese constitute about three quarters of the population, with large minorities of Malays, Indians and other races).
	www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej06/r7.html (3018 words)

	About Singapore - Singapore culture & language, religion of Singapore, Singlish
		The pattern of Singapore stems from the inherent cultural diversity of the island.
		English is the most common language used and is the language which unites the different ethnic groups.
		Singapore English grew out of the English of the playground of these children of various linguistic backgrounds who were learning English at school.
	www.singaporeexpats.com /about-singapore/culture-and-language.htm (1367 words)

	Selected publications of AFG
		Within Singapore, both education policy and the practice of the individual teacher need to be informed by the situation of Singapore English on the world and regional scene and also by the complexities of English within Singapore.
		It is now widely recognised in Singapore that the teaching of English should be primarily located in the setting and culture of Singapore, although not at the expense of exposing students to a wider cultural range of expression in English.
		The varieties of English used and represented in the two novels are compared to the varieties of English attested in sociolinguistic studies of Singapore.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /english/staff/afg/antheab.html (6172 words)

	Language, Society and Education in Singapore: Issues and Trends
		English, therefore, is to blame, since ``the negative strand of the [Hege lian] dialectics motivates [sic!] the English language to create a discourse that legitimizes the `institutionalization of inequality'" and so on.
		Since Singapore English has now expanded (and is constantly e xpanding) into new roles, such as the imaginative/innovative, the interpersonal, the informative, and the representative, it can no longer be relegated to a subservient role.
		The irony is that English is the only language known by all ethnic groups in the republic, so that it is the only tongue in which they might write their Singaporean identity; but in the process these very writers may disconnect themselves from their ``mother" tongues.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/messeas/handouts/singpore/lgsoceds.html (2398 words)

	PTLC99: Phonetics Teaching & Learning Conference
		Singapore is a multi-ethnic society whose resident population of 3 million are classified ethnically as 77.1% Chinese, 14.1% Malays, 7.5% Indians, and 1.4% persons of other ethnic groups (Foo, 1998).
		The official languages are English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, the latter three representing the three main ethnic groups, and indeed designated the official mother tongue of each of these groups.
		Singapore’s unique bilingual policy, defined "not as proficiency in any two languages but as proficiency in English and in one other official language" (Tay, 1984:5) has resulted in Singaporeans being "English-knowing bilinguals".
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/johnm/lim.htm (1349 words)

	Singapore English for Speech-Language Pathologists
		I was then at the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore and am now at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.
		In Singapore the opposite is likely to be the case: many newly arrived SLTs, faced with an apparently bizarre variety of English, think that "anything goes" and may miss the pathological.
		Pragmatic particles always follow a constituent and are often, but not always, sentence final Their main function in SCE seems to be to indicate the attitude of the speakers to what they are saying, especially in terms of degree of commitment.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /english/staff/afg/shastxt.html (3137 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Internet plus English equals Netglish
		The rise of English, she says, is "all about the power of the people who speak it" - first as the language of the British Empire and now, in a slightly different form, of American corporations, advertising and pop culture.
		This is the "native" English as used in the USA, UK, Australia and the rest of the English speaking-world.
		English, as the leading language of the internet, is already changing with increasing speed.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Linguistics/netglish.html (937 words)

	Shelia's House - Fantastic Singapore
		English is widely used and is the language of administration, business, and technology.
		The local colloquial dialect of English is known formally as Singapore Colloquial English (though it is more commonly called "Singlish"), which is the usual language on the streets, but is frowned upon in official contexts, and this matter has been brought up in recent years by the government.
		Singapore is a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious society.
	spaces.msn.com /members/wshelia (1740 words)

	Speak good English, can lah! PM Lee tells Singaporeans to drop Singlish
		Lee also made special mention of text-messaging English, which is used by many of the city-state's handphone-crazy youngsters, saying it may affect the way they learn how to spell.
		Lee suggested establishing proper English as a service standard at the workplace and urged all teachers and parents to be ambassadors of good spoken English.
		Singapore, a former British colony, is host to thousands of multinational corporations and implements an annual campaign for citizens to speak proper English to keep its competitive edge.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw05/050513af.htm (349 words)

	NYU Department of Linguistics: Syllabi
		This seminar investigates Singapore English from two angles: (i) the position of English in the socio-political and cultural context of Singapore; and (ii) the structure of Colloquial Singapore English (CSE).
		The aim is to situate Singapore English in relation to other varieties of English.
		We first consider the issues of standards and norms, and how the status of English as a global language relates to questions of language conflict, identity, and linguistic rights in Singapore and other parts of the world.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/lingu/courses/syllabi/3510/3510_03s_s002.html (238 words)

	Work Abroad ESLEnglish language myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This book will be warmly welcomed by native speakers of English teaching abroad who have been confronted by strange rules about English they never knew existed and probably don't exist.
		The aim of the book is to dispel beliefs about English which are held by English teachers in Singapore, Southeast Asia.
		Myth 1: Singaporeans are not native speakers of English.
	www.workabroadesl.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=151 (465 words)

	Review of Language, Society and Education in Singapore
		SCE is for informal purposes, between friends, family, on the street, for speaking to small children (outside school).
		And we include native speakers of SCE who are not competent in St.English; this does not mean we base the analysis on the speech of children (who are the most frequent examples (of native speakers of SCE who are not competent in St.English.).
		Most people who become proficient in SCE, as from childhood, eventually learn StdE, but perhaps in future there may be large numbers who are proficient in SCE but not in StdE, which will make it more like other parts of the E-speaking world, e.g.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/messeas/handouts/singpore/gopi36.html (1058 words)

	References -- Ecology of Language Evolution
		The selection and codification of a widely understood and publicly useable language variety in Guyana, to be used as a vehicle of national development.
		American English: From a colonial substandard to a prestige language.
		Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_ecol_references.html (1595 words)

	Ghost of a flea: Singlish
		This guide to Singlish, colloquial English as spoken in Singapore, should come in handy for reading Xiaxue.
		The influence is especially apparent in the kind of English that is used informally, which is popularly called Singlish, but which is called Singapore Colloquial English or Colloquial Singapore English in most academic writing.
		It is a "fine" city, as they say in Singapore.
	www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/005660.html (180 words)

	Singapore university - RESTRUCTURING OF SINGAPORE'S UNIVERSITY SECTOR - MOE Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore Colloquial English (Singlish) a VITB before moving on to university or polytechnic;; in Singapore people normally go barefoot in the house.
		The National University of Singapore (NUS) was established in 1980 as a result of a The University at Albany's program in Singapore offers students the
		The Singapore Management University (SMU) was officially incorporated on The National University Hospital (NUH) is a hospital in Singapore that is
	www.netdatax.com /?q=singapore-university (712 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: West Indian English Creole and African American Vernanular Resources
		b) West Indian English Creole are available for any researcher to work with, but they may only be consulted on the premises of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, providing that the researcher agrees to abide by certain ethical guidelines to protect informant privacy and confidentiality.
		At present, it includes descriptions of Hawai`i Creole English, African American (Vernacular) English, Aboriginal English, Singlish (Singapore Colloquial English), Bislama, Tok Pisin and Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin).
		A catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries explained pidgin and creole entries in the database.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Linguistics/AAVElinks.html (960 words)

	Kau Peh Kah Bu: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal
		In the middle a number of fields where the casualties of war are supposedly buried.
		If Singapore's socialist style propaganda was close to this massive, I might have actually felt a little more patriotic.
		Anyhow, found a little amusing stone relief along one of the monoliths arranged beside the fields.
	kau-peh.blogspot.com /2005/08/sowjetisches-ehrenmal.html (193 words)

	More Than Words, Op. 3
		English is the global language that unites us all.
		Lots of Singapore expressions, of course, are not obscene, and have nothing to do with Hokkien or any other Chinese idiom.
		Singapore's hot and humid climate is ideal environment for fungi to grow.
	sdrownahterom.blogspot.com (12261 words)

	Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She is currently based at St. Patrick’s Special School, running a Speech Pathology Student Unit which provides Speech Pathology services in the school.
		At present she is completing her PhD, looking at the acquisition of Singapore Colloquial English and Singapore Standard English for preschool Chinese children.
		In 2002 she published the Singapore English Action Picture Test, the first test specifically designed for use in Singapore.
	www.flinders.edu.au /speechpath/Chris_B.htm (116 words)

	Language Varieties
		These varieties have their own ways of pronouncing words, their own special vocabulary and even their own grammatical rules.
		For example, in American English, you can say, "She's gotten better." But in British English you'd say, "She's got better."
		People don't think one way is right and one way is wrong - just that they're different.
	www.une.edu.au /langnet (187 words)

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