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Singapore and Malaysia.
Title:
Singapore and Malaysia.
Author:
Platt, John.
ISBN:
9789027280213
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (140 pages)
Series:
Varieties of English Around the World ; v.T4

Varieties of English Around the World
Contents:
SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- The Texts -- A. Singapore English -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- TEXT 1 -- a. Comments on English -- b. Comments on English Tuition -- Notes -- TEXT 2 -- Interview about school -- Notes -- TEXT 3 -- Cantonese opera in Singapore -- Notes -- TEXT 4 -- Sago Lane -- Notes -- TEXT 5 -- Language use in the family -- Notes -- TEXT 6 -- About motor scooters -- Notes -- TEXT 7 -- About the type of discipline at school -- Notes -- TEXT 8 -- a. Commenting on his passengers and other taxi drivers -- b. Relating how he was involved in an accident -- Notes -- TEXT 9 -- a. About poorly paid jobs -- b. Bringing up chi -- c. About chicken rice served at XXX restaurant -- Notes -- TEXT 10 -- a. About her family -- b. Talking about her work -- Notes -- TEXT 11 -- About her school -- Notes -- TEXT 12 -- a. About his sister -- b. About films -- Notes -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- A. Singapore English -- TEXT 13 -- Chinese dialects and occupations -- Notes -- TEXT 14 -- a. About his father -- b. Trying to get a fla -- c. About taxis -- Notes -- TEXT 15 -- About the languages and Chinese dialects she can speak -- Notes -- TEXT 16 -- About cleanliness and smoking -- Notes -- TEXT 17 -- About Chinese writing -- Notes -- TEXT 18 -- Danger in a foreign city -- Notes -- TEXT 19 -- About a patient -- Note -- TEXT 20 -- Chinese in English-medium schools in the fifties -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- A. Singapore English Section (c) -- TEXT 22 -- Note -- TEXT 23 -- About boyfriends and marriage -- Notes -- TEXT 21 -- Notes -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- B. Malaysian English -- TEXT 24 -- Herself and the languages she uses -- Notes -- TEXT 25 -- Himself and his earlier jobs -- TEXT 26 -- a. About herself -- b. About Hokkien and Cantonese -- c. About jokes -- Notes.

Section (a) -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- B. Malaysian EnglishSection (b) -- TEXT 27 -- About her work -- Notes -- TEXT 28 -- Designs -- Notes -- TEXT 29 -- Teaching in Malaysian schools -- Notés -- TEXT 30 -- Languagé usé -- Notés -- TEXT 31 -- a. Getting accommodation -- b. English and Cantonese -- Note -- I. SPOKEN ENGLISH -- B. Malaysian English Section (c) -- TEXT 32 -- a. About himself -- b. About different regional varieties of Malay -- Notes -- TEXT 33 -- a. About himself -- b.About his family -- c. About Kelantan and the Kelantan dialect -- Notes -- TEXT 34 -- Language Use -- Notes -- TEXT 35 -- Language Use -- Notes -- TEXT 36 -- II. WRITTEN ENGLISH -- A. Compositions and notes -- TEXT 37 -- Birth of a Baby -- Notes -- TEXT 38 -- An old House -- TEXT 39 -- A Chinese Wedding -- Notes -- TEXT 40 -- A Chinese Wedding -- Note -- TEXT 41 -- The End of the Race -- Notes -- TEXT 42 -- At a provision shop1 -- Notes -- TEXT 43 -- Experiences of a taxi driver -- Notes -- TEXT 44 -- A Desperate Woman -- Notes -- TEXT 45 -- Death to an Enemy -- TEXT 46 -- A Badminton Match -- TEXT 47 -- Message 1 -- Message 2 -- TEXT 48 -- II. WRITTEN ENGLISH -- 8. From advertising leaflets, packets and menus in Singapore and Malaysia -- TEXT 49 -- TEXT 50 -- TEXT 51 -- TEXT 52 -- TEXT 53 -- Side 1 -- Side 2 -- TEXT 54 -- TEXT 55 -- TEXT 56 -- SPECIAL OFFER -- TEXT 57 -- TEXT 58 -- II. WRITTEN ENGLISH -- C. Newspaper Advertisements and Letters to the Editor -- TEXT 59 -- TEXT 61 -- TEXT 62 -- TEXT 63 -- TEXT 64 -- TEXT 65 -- NO LAUGHING MATTER -- ARE THESE PRESERVED FRUITS SAVE? -- A SOLDIER WITH NO PRIDE IS A DISGRACE -- Note -- III. LOCAL MEDIA COMMENTS ON SINGAPORE ENGLISH -- TEXT 66 -- IV.ENGLISHIN LITERATURE -- A. Poetry -- TEXT 67 -- Notes -- TEXT 68 -- Notes -- TEXT 69 -- TEXT 70 -- IV, ENGLISH IN LITERATURE -- B. Drama -- TEXT 71 -- Notes -- TEXT 72 -- Notes.

IV. ENGLISH IN LITERATURE -- C. Prose -- TEXT 73 -- TEXT 74 -- TEXT 75 -- TEXT 76 -- TEXT 77 -- Notes -- TEXT 78 -- Notes -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of spoken and written Singapore and Malaysian English as well as advertising pamphlets, newspaper advertisements and literary texts. The introduction to the volume sketches the historical and ethnic background, the increase in the functions of English in the colonial and earlier post-colonial period and the divergent language policies which have led to a decline in the status and functions of English in Malyasia but an ever increasing emphasis on it in Singapore. Each text is accompanied by a set of notes which explain grammatical and lexical characteristics and give information about the background of the text.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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