Oversea Chinese dominate a great majority of the Singaporean population.However,Chinese has never been an official administrative language or a major teaching mediating language in schools due to the geographical posi...Oversea Chinese dominate a great majority of the Singaporean population.However,Chinese has never been an official administrative language or a major teaching mediating language in schools due to the geographical position of the island country and the domestic complexity of the ethnic structure.Therefore,it is a social language case which is both confusing and strange.Though Chinese is not an administrative language,it is both an everyday language,which is very convenient for them to communicate,and a"political language"for political parties to seek votes.The paper elaborates how Chinese exerts political influence on general elections.展开更多
文摘Oversea Chinese dominate a great majority of the Singaporean population.However,Chinese has never been an official administrative language or a major teaching mediating language in schools due to the geographical position of the island country and the domestic complexity of the ethnic structure.Therefore,it is a social language case which is both confusing and strange.Though Chinese is not an administrative language,it is both an everyday language,which is very convenient for them to communicate,and a"political language"for political parties to seek votes.The paper elaborates how Chinese exerts political influence on general elections.
