Consuming identities: Language planning and policy in Singaporean late modernity

Language Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-279

  Stroud, Christopher ^a,b   Wee, Lionel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Language planning and policy; Late modernity; Multilingualism; Singapore; Sociolinguistic consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248341400     PISSN: 15684555     EISSN: 15731863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-007-9047-6     Document Type: Article

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