Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789813299795
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Because of this, people of one kind here can say things to people of another kind here.

Our government thinks that this is very good.

If someone can say many things with words of this kind well,

this someone can do very many big things here.

Many people will think something very good about this someone.

If a child cannot say things with words of this kind, this child can learn it in school.

Many people think something very good about this

The word first is not used in the explication, since there is nothing ‘first’ about the Singapore English ‘first language’. Rather, it is the dominant language and it is English. Without understanding the meaning of the term as it is used in Singapore English, a cultural outsider might find it odd that Singaporeans speak English as their ‘first language’, but Mandarin, Malay, or Tamil as their ‘mother tongue’.

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