Mark F Seilhamer
Biographic Data
| ID | 90401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark F Seilhamer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark F |
| FAMILY NAME | Seilhamer |
| SIGNATURE | SEILHAMER M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0336-3045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Choreographed authenticity: A diachronic analysis of the linguistic landscape in Singapore’s Chinatown
Despite the rapid growth of linguistic landscape (LL) research in Singapore over the past decade, much of this scholarship remains predominantly synchronic, leaving the historical development of linguistic landscapes underexplored. Focusing on Singapore’s Chinatown, this study adopts a diachronic perspective to examine how authenticity and multilingualism have been reconfigured across shifting sociopolitical and economic contexts. Drawing on 76 a…
Investigating the linguistic and semiotic landscape of science centre Singapore: A geosemiotic perspective on public educationscapes
Singapore English in the Singapore linguistic landscape
Singapore’s linguistic landscape is dominated by English, reflecting its functional role of providing a means of inter-ethnic communication. The English represented is mostly the Singapore English standardised variety – Singapore Standard English (SSE). While SSE does not differ substantially from standardised British English, it does have features that are distinctly Singaporean. The colloquial variety, commonly referred to as ‘Singlish’, has lo…
Singapore English: Negotiating its place, use and development
Considering the very small size of Singapore, the amount of scholarly attention that Singapore language issues, particularly Singapore English, have received – not only from Singapore-based academi
Identity construction on shop signs in Singapore ’s Chinatown: A study of linguistic choices by Chinese Singaporeans and New Chinese immigrants
Chinatowns, as neighborhoods for overseas ethnic Chinese, have garnered considerable scholarly attention from linguistic landscape (LL) researchers in recent years. These investigations tend to treat old immigrants who have been tied to the neighborhoods for generations as the key text producers of LL, with far too little attention paid to the LL practices of new Chinese immigrants in Chinatowns, who are often associated with transnationalism and…
Repositioning Singlish in Singapore’s language-in-education policies
Singapore’s language-in-education policies have always prescribed that only a standard variety of English be allowed in teaching and learning. This view of upholding a standard has been pervasive not only in education but also throughout Singapore’s society. In this article, we review Singapore’s language policy, emphasizing the functional polarization of languages ideology that serves as its basis, and discuss the resultant natural emergence of …
Girls Becoming Mathematicians: Identity and Agency in the Figured World of the English-Medium Primary School
This paper focusses on the process of learning mathematics in primary school from the perspectives of 62 girls aged seven to eleven. For many of these Singaporean girls, English is not the dominant home language, but they all learn mathematics in English. Despite the fact that achievement in mathematics is high nationally, girls appear to be less confident than boys. Adopting notions of identity and agency at the intersection of language and gend…
Overaccommodation in a Singapore eldercare facility
34 p
The ownership of English in Taiwan
Although applied linguists have long asserted that individuals who have learned English as an additional language can rightly claim ownership of the language, this willingness on the part of academics to grant ownership to all users of English is ultimately of little consequence to the users themselves, who more often than not consider linguistic ownership to be determined solely by ethnicity or place of birth. This paper outlines a framework com…
Singapore Colloquial English: Issues of prestige and identity
Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or 'Singlish' is a variety very distinct from Singapore Standardised English (SSE), and its use is a polarising issue in Singaporean society. In stark contrast to the results of most language attitude studies in which non-standardised varieties are rated positively along solidarity dimensions, participants of matched-guise studies investigating Singaporean attitudes toward SCE have assigned lower solidarity rati…
Young people, Malay and English in multilingual Singapore
With English use extremely prevalent in Singapore, young Singaporeans are increasingly abandoning the use of their ethnic languages. The Singapore Malay community, however, is frequently depicted as an exception to this trend, proudly keeping Malay as their dominant language and an integral part of their cultural identities despite the overwhelming dominance of English in present day Singaporean society. This study seeks to obtain a sense of whet…
English L2 personas and the imagined global community of English users: Do L2 users feel ‘like a different person’ when speaking in English
I have Danish parents, grown up in France, lived in the UK for 10 years and now living in Holland for the past 9 years. I am a different person in each language, adapting myself to the culture of the people who speak it. I have always wondered how the language could affect the message so much. It also affects my tone of voice and my emotions. [Christina, on July 27th, 2011] I find myself being more self-depreciating and less likely to accept prai…
On doing ‘being a crank caller’: A look into the crank call community of practice
Singapore Colloquial English: Issues of prestige and identity
Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or 'Singlish' is a variety very distinct from Singapore Standardised English (SSE), and its use is a polarising issue in Singaporean society. In stark contrast to the results of most language attitude studies in which non-standardised varieties are rated positively along solidarity dimensions, participants of matched-guise studies investigating Singaporean attitudes toward SCE have assigned lower solidarity rati…
Young people, Malay and English in multilingual Singapore
With English use extremely prevalent in Singapore, young Singaporeans are increasingly abandoning the use of their ethnic languages. The Singapore Malay community, however, is frequently depicted as an exception to this trend, proudly keeping Malay as their dominant language and an integral part of their cultural identities despite the overwhelming dominance of English in present day Singaporean society. This study seeks to obtain a sense of whet…
The ownership of English in Taiwan
Although applied linguists have long asserted that individuals who have learned English as an additional language can rightly claim ownership of the language, this willingness on the part of academics to grant ownership to all users of English is ultimately of little consequence to the users themselves, who more often than not consider linguistic ownership to be determined solely by ethnicity or place of birth. This paper outlines a framework com…
On doing ‘being a crank caller’: A look into the crank call community of practice
On doing ‘being a crank caller’: A look into the crank call community of practice
English L2 personas and the imagined global community of English users: Do L2 users feel ‘like a different person’ when speaking in English
I have Danish parents, grown up in France, lived in the UK for 10 years and now living in Holland for the past 9 years. I am a different person in each language, adapting myself to the culture of the people who speak it. I have always wondered how the language could affect the message so much. It also affects my tone of voice and my emotions. [Christina, on July 27th, 2011] I find myself being more self-depreciating and less likely to accept prai…
Singapore Colloquial English: Issues of prestige and identity
Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) or 'Singlish' is a variety very distinct from Singapore Standardised English (SSE), and its use is a polarising issue in Singaporean society. In stark contrast to the results of most language attitude studies in which non-standardised varieties are rated positively along solidarity dimensions, participants of matched-guise studies investigating Singaporean attitudes toward SCE have assigned lower solidarity rati…
Young people, Malay and English in multilingual Singapore
With English use extremely prevalent in Singapore, young Singaporeans are increasingly abandoning the use of their ethnic languages. The Singapore Malay community, however, is frequently depicted as an exception to this trend, proudly keeping Malay as their dominant language and an integral part of their cultural identities despite the overwhelming dominance of English in present day Singaporean society. This study seeks to obtain a sense of whet…
The ownership of English in Taiwan
Although applied linguists have long asserted that individuals who have learned English as an additional language can rightly claim ownership of the language, this willingness on the part of academics to grant ownership to all users of English is ultimately of little consequence to the users themselves, who more often than not consider linguistic ownership to be determined solely by ethnicity or place of birth. This paper outlines a framework com…
Overaccommodation in a Singapore eldercare facility
34 p
Girls Becoming Mathematicians: Identity and Agency in the Figured World of the English-Medium Primary School
This paper focusses on the process of learning mathematics in primary school from the perspectives of 62 girls aged seven to eleven. For many of these Singaporean girls, English is not the dominant home language, but they all learn mathematics in English. Despite the fact that achievement in mathematics is high nationally, girls appear to be less confident than boys. Adopting notions of identity and agency at the intersection of language and gend…
Repositioning Singlish in Singapore’s language-in-education policies
Singapore’s language-in-education policies have always prescribed that only a standard variety of English be allowed in teaching and learning. This view of upholding a standard has been pervasive not only in education but also throughout Singapore’s society. In this article, we review Singapore’s language policy, emphasizing the functional polarization of languages ideology that serves as its basis, and discuss the resultant natural emergence of …
Identity construction on shop signs in Singapore ’s Chinatown: A study of linguistic choices by Chinese Singaporeans and New Chinese immigrants
Chinatowns, as neighborhoods for overseas ethnic Chinese, have garnered considerable scholarly attention from linguistic landscape (LL) researchers in recent years. These investigations tend to treat old immigrants who have been tied to the neighborhoods for generations as the key text producers of LL, with far too little attention paid to the LL practices of new Chinese immigrants in Chinatowns, who are often associated with transnationalism and…
Singapore English in the Singapore linguistic landscape
Singapore’s linguistic landscape is dominated by English, reflecting its functional role of providing a means of inter-ethnic communication. The English represented is mostly the Singapore English standardised variety – Singapore Standard English (SSE). While SSE does not differ substantially from standardised British English, it does have features that are distinctly Singaporean. The colloquial variety, commonly referred to as ‘Singlish’, has lo…
Singapore English: Negotiating its place, use and development
Considering the very small size of Singapore, the amount of scholarly attention that Singapore language issues, particularly Singapore English, have received – not only from Singapore-based academi
Investigating the linguistic and semiotic landscape of science centre Singapore: A geosemiotic perspective on public educationscapes
Choreographed authenticity: A diachronic analysis of the linguistic landscape in Singapore’s Chinatown
Despite the rapid growth of linguistic landscape (LL) research in Singapore over the past decade, much of this scholarship remains predominantly synchronic, leaving the historical development of linguistic landscapes underexplored. Focusing on Singapore’s Chinatown, this study adopts a diachronic perspective to examine how authenticity and multilingualism have been reconfigured across shifting sociopolitical and economic contexts. Drawing on 76 a…
Linguistics (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistic landscape (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)