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Publication details [#66020]

Wee, Lionel and Ritu Jain. 2019. Diversity management and the presumptive universality of categories: the case of the Indians in Singapore. Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (1) : 16–32.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
colonialism | education | ethnicity | language and society | language dominance | language planning | language policy | language use | migration | multilingualism
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Growing societal and linguistic variety presents important challenges to formative categories of language policies. This point is made through an inquiry of Singapore's management of its most linguistically varied ethnic group, the Indians.