Peter K W Tan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 130498 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter K W Tan |
| NOMBRES | Peter K W |
| APELLIDO | Tan |
| FIRMA | TAN P K W |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1453-1286 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Street name changes as language and identity inscription in the cityscape
This article examines the role of language selection in constructing the cityscape of highly multilingual, postcolonial places like Malaysia and Namibia. The relationship between language policy, the construction of a national identity as well as linguistic inscriptions in the cityscape can be seen as part of language planning in relation to what gets represented, by whom, and for what purpose. We focus on street names as a typical target of lang…
Visualising Multilingual Lives
Visualising Multilingual Lives: More Than Words Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (eds) (2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 312 ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-260-9 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-259-3 (pbk)
Neutral Accent
Limits to styling
Literary discourse
Singapore’s Balancing Act, from the Perspective of the Linguistic Landscape
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Attitudes towards non-standard English in Singapore1
This paper examines the problem of a curriculum which promotes a standard linguistic variety in a context where non-standardisms are common in the learners' milieu. There have been curricula which try to incorporate the non-standard and have its function discussed; some have considered the non-standard a stepping-stone towards the standard; and yet others have tried to keep the non-standard out of the school context. We examine the Singaporean co…
The Struggle for a Standard
In Singapore several languages and several dialects of English contend for the distinction of “standard.” A brief history of standardization of English is given along with a consideration of the differences between the situations in Britain and the U.S. on the one hand and countries in East and Southeast Asia on the other, in particular the fact that in Britain and the U.S. there has been no official state involvement in developing a standard lan…
Towards a Standardization Of Personal Names
The evolution of personal names in western Europe can be said to be characterized by the phenomenon of standardization (Wilson 1998). This article seeks to examine whether this general rubric is of use in the context of hybridized names, specifically the names of the ethnic Chinese in Singapore. I examine names obtained from a school year book in Singapore against the backdrop of the traditional pattern as documented by Jones (1997). Notable chan…
Vaidehi Ramanathan
Journal Article Vaidehi Ramanathan: The English–Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice. Multilingual Matters, 2005 Get access Peter K. W. Tan Peter K. W. Tan National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 589–592, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ami024 Published: 01 December 2005 Article history Received:…
The medium-of-instruction debate in Malaysia
This paper investigates the medium-of-instruction debate in the press and news agency reports in 2002 in Malaysia in the wake of a policy change which would see the introduction of an English-Malay bilingual or mixed medium education in schools from 2003. The author uses this debate as a springboard for examining the position of English in Malaysia. This is done within the framework of the development of non-Anglo Englishes (Schneider 2003a). Whi…
Evolving naming patterns
English place names show vestiges of the original languages spoken (e.g. Kent is Celtic): this is seen as characterising the early stages of dialect birth. In contrast to place names, little attention has been given to personal names. This paper attempts to explore ways in which this can be done by examining ethnic-Chinese names in Singapore with a view to understanding how this could be related to the spread of non-Anglo Englishes. To illustrate…
Englishised names
An analysis of naming patterns among ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans. The study of names (or, to give it its Sunday name, onomastics ) has not always been accorded high academic prestige and is often thought of as a non-specialist's hobby horse. The fact that most books on naming in bookshops seem to address only prospective parents who need to name their child also does not give the study a high standing. In the university context, this is not somet…
Macquarie Junior Dictionary
Speech presentation in Singaporean English novels
Speech presentation has attracted much attention by scholars of literary texts, and more recently attention has been focused on academic, political and newspaper texts. Hardly any attention has been focused on the context of the New Englishes. In this paper therefore, I examine speech presentation in Singaporean fiction in English in an attempt to establish if and how the various modes and styles of speech presentation are altered in the context …
Malay loan words across different dialects of English
An explanation of how words from Malay are used in English and exhibited in various dictionaries, particularly with regard to Malaysia and Singapore
Singapore’s Balancing Act, from the Perspective of the Linguistic Landscape
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Attitudes towards non-standard English in Singapore1
This paper examines the problem of a curriculum which promotes a standard linguistic variety in a context where non-standardisms are common in the learners' milieu. There have been curricula which try to incorporate the non-standard and have its function discussed; some have considered the non-standard a stepping-stone towards the standard; and yet others have tried to keep the non-standard out of the school context. We examine the Singaporean co…
The medium-of-instruction debate in Malaysia
This paper investigates the medium-of-instruction debate in the press and news agency reports in 2002 in Malaysia in the wake of a policy change which would see the introduction of an English-Malay bilingual or mixed medium education in schools from 2003. The author uses this debate as a springboard for examining the position of English in Malaysia. This is done within the framework of the development of non-Anglo Englishes (Schneider 2003a). Whi…
Evolving naming patterns
English place names show vestiges of the original languages spoken (e.g. Kent is Celtic): this is seen as characterising the early stages of dialect birth. In contrast to place names, little attention has been given to personal names. This paper attempts to explore ways in which this can be done by examining ethnic-Chinese names in Singapore with a view to understanding how this could be related to the spread of non-Anglo Englishes. To illustrate…
The Struggle for a Standard
In Singapore several languages and several dialects of English contend for the distinction of “standard.” A brief history of standardization of English is given along with a consideration of the differences between the situations in Britain and the U.S. on the one hand and countries in East and Southeast Asia on the other, in particular the fact that in Britain and the U.S. there has been no official state involvement in developing a standard lan…
Towards a Standardization Of Personal Names
The evolution of personal names in western Europe can be said to be characterized by the phenomenon of standardization (Wilson 1998). This article seeks to examine whether this general rubric is of use in the context of hybridized names, specifically the names of the ethnic Chinese in Singapore. I examine names obtained from a school year book in Singapore against the backdrop of the traditional pattern as documented by Jones (1997). Notable chan…
Malay loan words across different dialects of English
An explanation of how words from Malay are used in English and exhibited in various dictionaries, particularly with regard to Malaysia and Singapore
Macquarie Junior Dictionary
Speech presentation in Singaporean English novels
Speech presentation has attracted much attention by scholars of literary texts, and more recently attention has been focused on academic, political and newspaper texts. Hardly any attention has been focused on the context of the New Englishes. In this paper therefore, I examine speech presentation in Singaporean fiction in English in an attempt to establish if and how the various modes and styles of speech presentation are altered in the context …
Englishised names
An analysis of naming patterns among ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans. The study of names (or, to give it its Sunday name, onomastics ) has not always been accorded high academic prestige and is often thought of as a non-specialist's hobby horse. The fact that most books on naming in bookshops seem to address only prospective parents who need to name their child also does not give the study a high standing. In the university context, this is not somet…
Evolving naming patterns
English place names show vestiges of the original languages spoken (e.g. Kent is Celtic): this is seen as characterising the early stages of dialect birth. In contrast to place names, little attention has been given to personal names. This paper attempts to explore ways in which this can be done by examining ethnic-Chinese names in Singapore with a view to understanding how this could be related to the spread of non-Anglo Englishes. To illustrate…
Vaidehi Ramanathan
Journal Article Vaidehi Ramanathan: The English–Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice. Multilingual Matters, 2005 Get access Peter K. W. Tan Peter K. W. Tan National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 589–592, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ami024 Published: 01 December 2005 Article history Received:…
The medium-of-instruction debate in Malaysia
This paper investigates the medium-of-instruction debate in the press and news agency reports in 2002 in Malaysia in the wake of a policy change which would see the introduction of an English-Malay bilingual or mixed medium education in schools from 2003. The author uses this debate as a springboard for examining the position of English in Malaysia. This is done within the framework of the development of non-Anglo Englishes (Schneider 2003a). Whi…
Towards a Standardization Of Personal Names
The evolution of personal names in western Europe can be said to be characterized by the phenomenon of standardization (Wilson 1998). This article seeks to examine whether this general rubric is of use in the context of hybridized names, specifically the names of the ethnic Chinese in Singapore. I examine names obtained from a school year book in Singapore against the backdrop of the traditional pattern as documented by Jones (1997). Notable chan…
The Struggle for a Standard
In Singapore several languages and several dialects of English contend for the distinction of “standard.” A brief history of standardization of English is given along with a consideration of the differences between the situations in Britain and the U.S. on the one hand and countries in East and Southeast Asia on the other, in particular the fact that in Britain and the U.S. there has been no official state involvement in developing a standard lan…
Attitudes towards non-standard English in Singapore1
This paper examines the problem of a curriculum which promotes a standard linguistic variety in a context where non-standardisms are common in the learners' milieu. There have been curricula which try to incorporate the non-standard and have its function discussed; some have considered the non-standard a stepping-stone towards the standard; and yet others have tried to keep the non-standard out of the school context. We examine the Singaporean co…
Singapore’s Balancing Act, from the Perspective of the Linguistic Landscape
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Literary discourse
Neutral Accent
Limits to styling
Street name changes as language and identity inscription in the cityscape
This article examines the role of language selection in constructing the cityscape of highly multilingual, postcolonial places like Malaysia and Namibia. The relationship between language policy, the construction of a national identity as well as linguistic inscriptions in the cityscape can be seen as part of language planning in relation to what gets represented, by whom, and for what purpose. We focus on street names as a typical target of lang…
Visualising Multilingual Lives
Visualising Multilingual Lives: More Than Words Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (eds) (2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 312 ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-260-9 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-259-3 (pbk)
Linguistics (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · History (11 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Ethnic group (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)