33.3484, Books: Choreographies of Multilingualism: Lee

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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:52:40
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Choreographies of Multilingualism: Lee

 


Title: Choreographies of Multilingualism 
Subtitle: Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/choreographies-of-multilingualism-9780197644645?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Tong King Lee

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197644645 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 125
Paperback: ISBN:  9780197644652 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

Singapore boasts a complex mix of languages and is therefore a rich site for
the study of multilingualism and multilingual society. In particular, writing
is a key medium in the production of the nation's multilingual order - one
that is often used to organize language relations for public consumption.

In Choreographies of Multilingualism, Tong King Lee examines the linguistic
landscape of written language in Singapore - from street signage and
advertisements, to institutional anthologies and text-based memorabilia, to
language primers and social media-based poetry - to reveal the underpinning
language ideologies and how those ideologies figure in political tensions. The
book analyzes the competing official and grassroots narratives around
multilingualism and takes a nuanced approach to discuss the marginalization,
celebration, or appropriation of Singlish. Bringing together theoretical
perspectives from sociolinguistics, multimodal semiotics, translation, and
cultural studies, Lee demonstrates that multilingualism in Singapore is an
emergent and evolving construct through which identities and ideologies are
negotiated and articulated.

Broad-ranging and cross-disciplinary, this book offers a significant
contribution to our understanding of language in Singapore, and more broadly
to our understanding of multilingualism and the sociolinguistics of writing.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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