Language Use and Discoursal Strategies in Peer Religious Mentoring

This paper focuses on language use and discoursal strategies in an Islamic boys camp and draws from theoretical frameworks such as the ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis and discourse analysis as a means to examine the phenomena of religious mentoring and socialization.   The article found that mentees were socialized through senior peers’ linguistic strategies such as language choice and code-switching and discoursal strategies such as humor, mock-demonstrations  – all of which played a major role in building solidarity, group support and brotherly bonding

POLITICAL WOMEN IN SINGAPORE: A SOCIO-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Synopsis -This study sets out to discover how the political woman in Singapore is portrayed in Singapore through a study of her representation in the media. A focussed study of the Singapore English newspapers in the political elections of 1984, 1988 and 1991 show the construction of the political woman in two ways: one is through the creation of the stereotype, packaging the political woman as a type of woman and like all women, operating within the framework of the family, such as, their role as wives, as the helped, as mothers and as "the weaker sex"; and the other is through the medium of language itself, for example, such as the use of address terms, overlexicalization, and the tabloid commentary style

A sociolinguistic history of early identities in Singapore : from colonialism to nationalism

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