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Linguistic Entrepreneurship as Affective Regime: Organizations, Audit Culture, and Second/Foreign Language Education Policy
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De Costa, Peter I.; Park, Joseph; Wee, Lionel – Language Policy, 2019
Conceived as the act of aligning with the moral imperative to enhance one's worth in the world through a strategic management of language-related resources (De Costa et al. in Asia Pac Educ Res 25(5-6):695-702, 2016), linguistic entrepreneurship is used as a framework to guide this paper that examines the growing influence of neoliberalism within…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy, Entrepreneurship
Cartographic Mismatches and Language Policy: The Case of Hindi in Singapore
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Jain, Ritu; Wee, Lionel – Language Policy, 2018
In this paper, we present Singapore's language policy as a case of flexible responsiveness to demographic and societal shifts as a result of high migration. The particular need to accommodate the enhanced linguistic diversity among the linguistically heterogeneous Indians, previously served by Tamil, has led to the "semiofficial"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Indo European Languages, Demography
"Burdens" and "Handicaps" in Singapore's Language Policy: On the Limits of Language Management
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Wee, Lionel – Language Policy, 2010
Singapore's language policy has no place for either the various dialects of Chinese (the exception is Mandarin), or Singlish (a colloquial variety of English). These have been the targets of government campaigns that aim, as far as possible, to ensure that Singaporeans stop using them. However, it is interesting to observe that government…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Dialects, Public Health, Foreign Countries