The multilingual state in search of the nation: The language policy and discourse in Singapore's nation-building

Language Nation and Development in Southeast Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 74-117

  Tan, Eugene K B ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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