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Lionel Wee, The Singlish controversy: Language, culture and identity in a globalizing world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 210. eBook $88.

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Lionel Wee, The Singlish controversy: Language, culture and identity in a globalizing world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 210. eBook $88.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2019

Stefanie Pillai
Stefanie Pillai*
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Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiastefanie@um.edu.my
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Language in Society , Volume 48 , Issue 5 , November 2019 , pp. 778 - 781
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