Carl Jon Way Ng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carl Jon Way Ng is involved.
Articles
2018 Skilling the nation, empowering the citizen: Neoliberal instantiations in Singapore’s lifelong learning policy Journal of Language and Politics 17:1, pp. 118–140 | Article
This paper focuses on what is referred to as the SkillsFuture initiative as the most current crystallization of the Singapore government’s lifelong learning policy, and the state-sponsored discourse associated with it. Adopting a critical discourse-analytic approach, the study examines a data… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Constructing the ideal organization: Metaphor in higher education brand communication Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 207–224 | Chapter
This chapter looks at brand communication and how metaphor relates to the cognitive and functional dimensions of this persuasive communication by way of examining how Singapore’s publicly-funded higher education institutions communicate with their audiences. The chapter highlights the role of… read more