1st Edition
Language and Identity among Elite Students Grounded High Flyers in Singapore
By Luke Lu
Copyright 2027
220 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Lu focuses on conversations among top-performing students from Raffles Institution in Singapore, exploring how they articulate their aspirations, attitudes towards state scholarships, their sense of identity in relation to their peers, and their use of language, including Singlish.
Drawing on linguistic ethnography as a method and Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals and social fields as an... Read more
1. Encounters with elite students in a Singaporean school 2. Elite students in Singapore as a puzzle and challenge for research 3. Contextualising the practices of my informants 4. Talk on aspirations and trajectories 5. Talk on state scholarships 6. Talk on differentiations 7. Talk on Singlish 8. Being and becoming an elite student in Singapore
Biography
Luke Lu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has a PhD from King's College London, UK.
