Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.

Style, Identity and Literacy is a remarkable achievement: it brings together the close analysis of the ethnography of communication with a broader political economy of literacy based on Bourdieu's models of capital and exchange.

• Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic MarketsChapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A PortraitChapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of IdentityChapter 4: Some Data about our DataChapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent MarketsChapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 7: Sha: A ComparisonChapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And IdentityChapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore

Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.

Style, Identity and Literacy is a remarkable achievement: it brings together the close analysis of the ethnography of communication with a broader political economy of literacy based on Bourdieu's models of capital and exchange.

• Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic MarketsChapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A PortraitChapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of IdentityChapter 4: Some Data about our DataChapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent MarketsChapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 7: Sha: A ComparisonChapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And IdentityChapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore

Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.

Style, Identity and Literacy is a remarkable achievement: it brings together the close analysis of the ethnography of communication with a broader political economy of literacy based on Bourdieu's models of capital and exchange.

• Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic MarketsChapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A PortraitChapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of IdentityChapter 4: Some Data about our DataChapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent MarketsChapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 7: Sha: A ComparisonChapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And IdentityChapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore