Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong. He was Luce-East Asia Fellow at the U.S. National Humanities Center (2020-2021) and holds several professional qualifications and appointments, including NAATI-Certified Translator (Australia), Chartered Linguist (UK), and Specialist at the Hong Kong Council for the Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. He is the author of Translation and Translanguaging (2019), Applied Translation Studies (2018), and Experimental Chinese Literature (2015), and the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City (2021).

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Chapter One: Introduction


• Chapter Two: Spectacles of Multilingualism: Reading the Semiotic Landscape


• Chapter Three: Quadrilingualism as Method: Literary Anthologies and other Cultural Literacy Events


• Chapter Four: Ludifying English: Singlish as Ideological Critique


• Chapter Five: Multicultural Fantasies from Below: SingPoWriMo and Citizen Poetry


• Chapter Six: Beyond the Divide: Towards a Postmultilingual Singapore


• Index

Choreographies of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive view of how Singapore's multilingualism is constructed through writing. Drawing on a wide range of data, including public signage, literary anthologies, social media writing, advertisements, and text-based commodities, Tong King Lee offers nuanced analyses of the multiple vectors that crisscross the linguistic landscape of a multilingual city. The book combines different theoretical and methodological perspectives and will be of interest to students and scholars across several fields, namely sociolinguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, and translation.