Publications

Publication details [#53852]

Wee, Lionel. 2010. ‘Burdens’ and ‘handicaps’ in Singapore’s language policy: on the limits of language management. Language Policy 9 (2) : 97–114.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language policy | language use | language variety

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

Annotation

This paper discusses how the Singaporean government fails to sufficiently acknowledge the different practical challenges posed by the various dialects of Chinese and Singlish, as they try to shortcut their usage.