Ng Bee Chin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ng Bee Chin is involved.
2026 A clash of ‘Prides’ in Chinese-English bilinguals International Journal of Language and Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
Pride is an emotion that has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers in recent decades. Historically, it has been rarely explored in non-European languages. This study examines the verbal displays of pride in Singaporean Chinese–English bilingual youths who are highly fluent in both… read more
2024 Language practices and policies of Singaporean-Japanese families in Singapore Pragmatics 34:1, pp. 55–80 | Article
The few studies on Family Language Policy in Singapore (FLP) have generally focused on FLP in local and immigrant Chinese families. This article explores language policies that seem to undergird Singaporean-Japanese families’ language practices. In-depth interviews and observations with five such… read more
2018 Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese varieties in Singapore Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2, pp. 195–225 | Article
This study aims to shed light on the attitudes of Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese nationals residing in Singapore to varieties of Mandarin Chinese. 64 Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants took matched and verbal-guise tests, evaluating recorded speakers of two varieties of… read more
1993 The female radical: Portrayal of women in the Chinese script Language and Gender in the Australian Context, Winter, Joanne and Gillian Wigglesworth (eds.), pp. 54–85 | Article
The paper discusses the sexist portrayal of women in Mandarin Chinese. It begins with a study of asymmetries in the lexicon; e.g. naming conventions, address terms, abuse terms, etc. which exemplify the marginalisation of Chinese women. The focus of the paper is on the stereotyped depiction of… read more