Limited pidgin-type patois? policy, language, technology, identity and the experience of canto-pop in Singapore
This article explores the interactions and tensions arising from a vibrant Canto-pop industry exported from Hong Kong to an interventionist nation-state of Singapore bent on discouraging the use of dialects by its ethnic Chinese population. Aside from highlighting the roles of technological and comm...
Main Author: | Liew, Kai Khiun |
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Other Authors: | Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information |
Format: | Journal Article |
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2011
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92192 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6805 |
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