Abstract
The previous chapters have examined formulaic genres in a largely monolingual community. But what happens in a bi-or multi-lingual community? Specifically, what happens when that community’s speakers who are multilingual use a formulaic genre? Do they experience and learn a different set of formulaic genres for each of their languages or is there overlap? Singapore provides one suitable site for answering these questions. Singapore is a multilingual and multicultural community. Its resident population is ethnically Chinese, Indian and Malay. English is the language of public administration, so many people in Singapore grow up bi-and multi-lingual and you might therefore be tempted to think, bi-and multi-cultural (Fraser Gupta, 1998; Platt, Weber & Ho, 1983).KeywordsNative SpeakerLiteral TranslationLectal FormNegative FacePositive FaceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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