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Publication details [#42739]

Wee, Lionel and Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng. 2005. Language policy and nationalist ideology: Statal narratives in Singapore. Multilingua 24 (3) : 159–183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | ideology | language policy | narrative | nationalism

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Asian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how Singapore’s current language policy, supporting a distinction between Asian ‘mother tongues’ and English, might need to change in the light of a possible future foreign talent policy.