Lionel Wee Knihy

The book explores the intricate relationship between consumption, citizenship, and state dynamics in various global cities, focusing on a comparative analysis between Singapore and other cities in Asia and the West. It delves into how these factors shape urban life and influence social structures, offering insights into the cultural and economic implications of consumption in diverse urban environments.

The book explores the intersection of automation and communication through a posthumanist perspective, using diverse examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters, and poetry. Lionel Wee offers deep insights into how automation influences interactions and the implications for human experience, encouraging readers to reconsider the role of technology in communication.

Provides researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics with a theory of landscape affect as a linguistic and semiotic phenomenon. It is also of value to cultural geographers, urban sociologists and planners, and other researchers and students interested in the analysis of space and how spatial meanings are constructed.

Posthumanism does not deny the role of humans but questions the assumption that it is human activity and agency that should be given pride of place in any analysis of social activity. This carries important and interesting implications for the study of World Englishes, some of which are explored in this Element.

This book is for students and researchers who are interested in language policy and New Englishes, as well as in questions about the nature of language. It argues that a detailed analysis of the Singlish controversy can illuminate broader questions about language, identity and globalization.