ID - 79198843 TI - Singapore English : structure, variation, and usage PY - 2013 SN - 9781107027305 9781139225755 9781107558731 1139225758 9781107341883 1107341884 1107027306 1107558735 1107236800 1107357756 110734915X 1107348137 1107345634 1107344387 1299773133 9781107236806 9781107357754 9781107348134 9781107345638 9781107344389 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Dialectology KW - English language KW - Singapore KW - Language and culture KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - Germanic languages KW - Variation KW - Social aspects KW - Languages. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79198843 AB - In recent years the study of English and its global varieties has grown rapidly as a field of study. The English language in Singapore, famous for its vernacular known as 'Singlish', is of particular interest to linguists because it takes accent, dialect and lexical features from a wide range of languages including Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien and Tamil, as well as being influenced by the Englishes of Britain, Australia and America. This book gives a comprehensive overview of English in Singapore by setting it within a historical context and drawing on recent developments in the field of indexicality, world Englishes and corpus research. Through application of the indexicality framework Jakob Leimgruber offers readers a new way of thinking about and analysing the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English. This book is ideal for researchers and advanced students interested in Singapore and its languages. ER -