Publications

Publication details [#38912]

Wong, Jock. 2004. The particles of Singapore English: a semantic and cultural interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (4) : 739–793.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | metalanguage | particle | semantics1

Language as a subject

English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the meanings of several Singapore English particles, distinctive features of this cultural dialect that provide valuable insights into Singapore culture, within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework.