Style, Identity and Literacy English in Singapore
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.
Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.
<p>Style, Identity and Literacy is a remarkable achievement: it brings together the close analysis of the ethnography of communication with a broader political economy of literacy based on Bourdieu's models of capital and exchange.</p>
Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
<p>This book is unique in its consideration of language issues in Singapore in the way that it invites us to think about how multilingual complexities are reshaping debates and concerns with language both here and elsewhere in the globalised world. It is an absorbing and theoretically informed account and offers an important model of how sociolinguistic research might be done in other multilingual contexts. It concludes with a carefully-made call for a revised approach to language policy and will hopefully provoke much interest and debate, in Singapore and elsewhere.</p>
Mastin Prinsloo, University of Cape Town, South Africa
<p>“Style, Identity and Literacy” represents an accomplished and well-written example of qualitative ethnographic methods applied to sociolinguistic research, which might be of interest to anyone teaching research methodologies or pursuing qualitative research. It also contributes to the understanding of “style” as a significant factor in literacy practices and linguistic identity.</p>
Carolina I. Viera, University of California-Davis, USA on the Linguist List 23.3361
<p>The material is thought provoking and interesting, and it raises some profound issues that should be considered by language planners. Indeed, many readers from Singapore and elsewhere will find the book both interesting and important.</p>
- David Deterding, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei in World Englishes, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 551–563, 2013,
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.
Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.