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Direct linkPakir, Anne – World Englishes, 2009
This paper considers the problems, the properties, and the prospects of using "English as a lingua franca" as a construct and as a reality. It will therefore focus on what is meant by the term "lingua franca", what is represented as a "lingua franca", and what the debates are about English as a lingua franca. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Variation
Vaish, Viniti – World Englishes, 2008
This paper reports on an investigation of the effect of religion on language use in Singapore. Data come from the Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore, 2006, a large-scale language survey linked to follow-up studies. The conceptual framework was based upon Castells' idea of a new social order in the network society; the main research questions were…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Ethnic Groups, Religion, Foreign Countries
Rubdy, Rani; Mckay, Sandra Lee; Alsagoff, Lubna; Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D. – World Englishes, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Indians, Ownership, Official Languages, Norms
