Language shift in a Singapore family

Anthea Fraser Gupta · Siew Pui Yeok

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A major language shift in Singapore over the last twenty years has been from familial use of varieties of Chinese other than Mandarin towards the languages of education, English and Mandarin. This has been so rapid that grandchildren may have no language in common with their grandparents. An ethnographic study of a Singaporean Chinese family which has moved from Cantonese to English examines the attitudes and societal pressures which have led to this and shows how family members deal with the discrepancies in language repertoire.

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