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dc.title | Balancing Macro- and Micro-Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Language Management: The Case of Singapore | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuo, E.C.Y. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jernudd, B.H. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-08T08:22:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-08T08:22:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kuo, E.C.Y., Jernudd, B.H. (1993). Balancing Macro- and Micro-Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Language Management: The Case of Singapore. Language Problems and Language Planning 17 (1) : 1-21. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 02722690 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/129442 | |
dc.description.abstract | Macro- & microsociolinguistic perspectives are used to explain national language management in Singapore. Macrolevel language planning is centered on government programs that try to foster national consolidation, through tasks of socioethnic integration & economic development. Microlevel language planning is focused on exploring the link between individual conduct in discourse & group behavior in communication. Macro & micro methods are found to be complementary. Due to its multiethnic & multilingual nature, Singapore is faced with two important language-related issues: communicative integration & the development of a new national identity to encourage economic, social, & cultural advancement. The current policy is pragmatic multilingualism that includes four languages. Out of those, English is regarded as the "neutral" language to express the emerging "supraethnic identity." A multilingual policy was implemented by the government in the national educational & communication systems, with English as the working language. The Singaporean government is also concerned with teaching internationally adequate forms of English & Mandarin Chinese because a vernacular form of English has arisen & many dialects of Chinese are currently spoken. In Singapore, language diversity is understood to prevent the creation of a national identity, & to decrease administrative & economic efficiency; the government is therefore working on a macrolevel to solve multilingual problems, but it is suggested that microlevel issues need more emphasis in order to create a balanced approach to nation-building. | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | SOCIOLOGY | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Language Problems and Language Planning | |
dc.description.volume | 17 | |
dc.description.issue | 1 | |
dc.description.page | 1-21 | |
dc.description.coden | LPLPD | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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