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Publication details [#42676]

Wee, Lionel. 2005. Intra-Language Discrimination and Linguistic Human Rights: The Case of Singlish. Applied Linguistics 26 (1) : 48–69.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language status | language variety | prejudice

Language as a subject

English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper on linguistic human rights focuses on the specific case of intra-language discrimination of the colloquial variety of Singapore English, referred to as Singlish.