Lubna Alsagoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 176926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lubna Alsagoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lubna |
| FAMILY NAME | Alsagoff |
| SIGNATURE | ALSAGOFF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
English as an international language in Asia
This edited monograph, resulting from the First Macao International Forum in December of 2010, provides a much-needed perspective on the role of English in education in East and Southeast Asia. Its
TheGlobal-Local Interface and Hybridity
Hybridizing Medialect and Entertaining TV
English in Singapore
Singapore is placed in the Outer Circle of the Kachru's Three Circles Model, and has over the years developed an English which is uniquely Singaporean. This paper argues that in order to understand the ways in which Singapore English is developing its own standards and ways of speaking, a new model needs to be developed that takes culture, capital and identity into consideration. This socio-cultural perspective is one grounded in an understanding…
A public policy perspective on English medium instruction in China
Language education for ethnic majority and minority students alike has recently received much policy attention in the People's Republic of China. An outcome of this policy attention is the Chinese–English bilingual education initiative which turns on the use of English as a medium of instruction for Han majority students at the primary and secondary levels of education. This paper draws on the public policy perspective on language policy formulat…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions
An experimental design was employed in the investigation of the impact of two status cues, language style and source expertise, on people’s perceptions of online political discussants and their intentions and motivations to participate in local online political discussion fora. Specifically, the colloquial form of Singapore English, known as Singlish, was manipulated, together with information about the expertise of a discussant, in a 2 3 2 betwe…
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Why You Talk Like That
In this paper, we examine one wh-construction in Singapore English, which signals a demand for justification, and show that there is a systematic correlation between its structural and pragmatic properties. We suggest that this wh-construction is based on the imperative, and inherits the structural properties associated with the relatively more polite version of the imperative. In Singapore English, this is the version that makes explicit mention…
The relative clause in colloquial Singapore English
In this paper, we demonstrate the specific ways in which the influence of Chinese manifests itself in the structure of the noun phrases containing relative clause modifiers in colloquial Singapore English. We argue that while previous researchers have been correct in pointing out the substratal influence of Chinese, they have not gone far enough in articulating the specific nature of this influence, in particular on the grammar. Colloquial Singap…
The Notions of Subject and Topic in Malay
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 3-14
English in Singapore
Singapore is placed in the Outer Circle of the Kachru's Three Circles Model, and has over the years developed an English which is uniquely Singaporean. This paper argues that in order to understand the ways in which Singapore English is developing its own standards and ways of speaking, a new model needs to be developed that takes culture, capital and identity into consideration. This socio-cultural perspective is one grounded in an understanding…
A public policy perspective on English medium instruction in China
Language education for ethnic majority and minority students alike has recently received much policy attention in the People's Republic of China. An outcome of this policy attention is the Chinese–English bilingual education initiative which turns on the use of English as a medium of instruction for Han majority students at the primary and secondary levels of education. This paper draws on the public policy perspective on language policy formulat…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Why You Talk Like That
In this paper, we examine one wh-construction in Singapore English, which signals a demand for justification, and show that there is a systematic correlation between its structural and pragmatic properties. We suggest that this wh-construction is based on the imperative, and inherits the structural properties associated with the relatively more polite version of the imperative. In Singapore English, this is the version that makes explicit mention…
The relative clause in colloquial Singapore English
In this paper, we demonstrate the specific ways in which the influence of Chinese manifests itself in the structure of the noun phrases containing relative clause modifiers in colloquial Singapore English. We argue that while previous researchers have been correct in pointing out the substratal influence of Chinese, they have not gone far enough in articulating the specific nature of this influence, in particular on the grammar. Colloquial Singap…
The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions
An experimental design was employed in the investigation of the impact of two status cues, language style and source expertise, on people’s perceptions of online political discussants and their intentions and motivations to participate in local online political discussion fora. Specifically, the colloquial form of Singapore English, known as Singlish, was manipulated, together with information about the expertise of a discussant, in a 2 3 2 betwe…
The Notions of Subject and Topic in Malay
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 3-14
Why You Talk Like That
In this paper, we examine one wh-construction in Singapore English, which signals a demand for justification, and show that there is a systematic correlation between its structural and pragmatic properties. We suggest that this wh-construction is based on the imperative, and inherits the structural properties associated with the relatively more polite version of the imperative. In Singapore English, this is the version that makes explicit mention…
The relative clause in colloquial Singapore English
In this paper, we demonstrate the specific ways in which the influence of Chinese manifests itself in the structure of the noun phrases containing relative clause modifiers in colloquial Singapore English. We argue that while previous researchers have been correct in pointing out the substratal influence of Chinese, they have not gone far enough in articulating the specific nature of this influence, in particular on the grammar. Colloquial Singap…
The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions
An experimental design was employed in the investigation of the impact of two status cues, language style and source expertise, on people’s perceptions of online political discussants and their intentions and motivations to participate in local online political discussion fora. Specifically, the colloquial form of Singapore English, known as Singlish, was manipulated, together with information about the expertise of a discussant, in a 2 3 2 betwe…
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
English in Singapore
Singapore is placed in the Outer Circle of the Kachru's Three Circles Model, and has over the years developed an English which is uniquely Singaporean. This paper argues that in order to understand the ways in which Singapore English is developing its own standards and ways of speaking, a new model needs to be developed that takes culture, capital and identity into consideration. This socio-cultural perspective is one grounded in an understanding…
A public policy perspective on English medium instruction in China
Language education for ethnic majority and minority students alike has recently received much policy attention in the People's Republic of China. An outcome of this policy attention is the Chinese–English bilingual education initiative which turns on the use of English as a medium of instruction for Han majority students at the primary and secondary levels of education. This paper draws on the public policy perspective on language policy formulat…
TheGlobal-Local Interface and Hybridity
Hybridizing Medialect and Entertaining TV
English as an international language in Asia
This edited monograph, resulting from the First Macao International Forum in December of 2010, provides a much-needed perspective on the role of English in education in East and Southeast Asia. Its
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Law (3 works)