Style, identity, and literacy : English in Singapore

Style, Identity and Literacy is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction - both inside and outside the classroom - to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school)

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stroud, Christopher (Author), Wee, Lionel , 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tonawanda, New York : Multilingual Matters , c2012
Series:Critical language and literacy studies [13]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Social practices and linguistic markets
  • 2. Multilingualism in late-modern Singapore : a portrait
  • 3. Multilingualism in late modernity : literacy as a reflexive performance of identity
  • 4. Some data about our data
  • 5. Fandi and Ping : literacy practices and the performance of identities on ambivalent markets
  • 6. Edwin, Wen and Yan : styling literacy practices inside and outside the classroom
  • 7. Sha : a comparison
  • 8. Pedagogy, literacy and identity
  • 9. The dynamics of language distribution in late-modern multilingual Singapore