Publications

Publication details [#46045]

Saravanan, Vanithamani. 2007. Attitudes towards Literary Tamil and Standard Spoken Tamil in Singapore. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10 (1) : 58–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language use | language variety | literacy | spoken language

Language as a subject

Tamil

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Employing the matched-guise approach along with four-point semantic differential attitude scales, this empirical study explores attitudes towards two varieties, Literary Tamil and Standard Spoken Tamil in Singapore.