Choreographing linguistic landscapes in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21196459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tong King Lee (0000-0002-8885-6887, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 949-981 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1868-6303 • E-ISSN: 1868-6311 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/applirev-2020-0009 |
| OpenAlex | W3031823748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper proposes the notion of choreographed multilingualism to describe the top-down dimension of Singapore's linguistic landscape. Using a range of examples of official multilingual discourse, including public signage, exhibition artefacts, and print texts, it identifies a quadrilingual constellation that reiterates across different modalities, stabilizing into a visual-spatial formula. As a semiotic feature, the quadrilingual formula is an indexical that calls up the trope of neat multilingualism, whereby the four official languages of Singapore (English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil) are construed in a relation of equilibrium and equitability, while nonofficial/nonstandard languages, language varieties, and Chinese dialects are relegated to oblivion. The trope of neat multilingualism in turn evokes a larger sociolinguistic ambiance shaped by the official language policy and the language education system in Singapore. The paper theorises this situation in respect of Michel de Certeau's spatial theory, arguing that official discourses in Singapore corroborate the multilingual “place” produced by technologies of choreography
Art · Exhibition · Indexicality · Linguistic landscape · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Semiotics · Sociology · Syntagmatic analysis · Visual arts · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Mapping visual language
From the margins to relationality
Choreographed authenticity
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Deciphering translation practices in Macao's casino wonderland of Cotai
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Linguistic landscaping in Kathmandu’s Thamel ‘Chinatown’
Transliterated multilingualism/globalisation
The (un)making and (re)making of Guangzhou’s ‘Little Africa
Orchestrating mobility
Enacting Chinese-ness on Arab Land
The language policies of ethnic autonomous regions
Visualising the changing face of Hong Kong
Linguistic landscapes vary across districts within a city
Walking on Huaihai Street
Investigating the linguistic and semiotic landscape of science centre Singapore
Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory
Spiaking Singlish
Linguistic Landscapes
Reading Images
The Indeterminancy of Contextualization
Discourses in Place
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
LL research as expanding language and language policy
Linguistic landscapes in an era of multiple globalizations
The language of the street
Multilingualism in written discourse
The Singlish Controversy
Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space
Multilingualism in Tokyo
Commodified language in Chinatown
Multilingual writing
Bilingualism on display
Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality
Chronotopes, Scales, and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |