Choreographies of Multilingualism
Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 October 2022
- ISBN 9780197644652
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 155x235x15 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 b&w illustrations 401
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Short description:
Choreographies of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive view of how Singapore's multilingualism is constructed through writing. Drawing on a wide range of data, including public signage, literary anthologies, social media writing, advertisements, and text-based commodities, Tong King Lee offers nuanced analyses of the multiple vectors that crisscross the linguistic landscape of a multilingual city. The book combines different theoretical and methodological perspectives and will be of interest to students and scholars across several fields, namely sociolinguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, and translation.
MoreLong description:
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.
An uplifting and inspirational look at the power and provocation of multilingualism. Through a deeply engaged investigation of written public language in Singapore, Lee shows how multilingualism can simultaneously function as a tool to undergird institutional initiatives, a resource for spirited resistance, and a lively performance, emergent across time and around the globe, to help us all simultaneously reaffirm and reinvent our world. Read this book and contemplate, in fascination, how we speak, write, and read multiple languages to both make that world and make our way through it.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Spectacles of Multilingualism: Reading the Semiotic Landscape
Chapter Three: Quadrilingualism as Method: Literary Anthologies and other Cultural Literacy Events
Chapter Four: Ludifying English: Singlish as Ideological Critique
Chapter Five: Multicultural Fantasies from Below: SingPoWriMo and Citizen Poetry
Chapter Six: Beyond the Divide: Towards a Postmultilingual Singapore
Index
