Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Social Practices and Linguistic Markets -- 2. Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A Portrait -- 3. Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Refl exive Performance of Identity -- 4. Some Data About Our Data -- 5. Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent Markets -- 6. Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the Classroom -- 7. Sha: A Comparison -- 8. Pedagogy, Literacy and Identity -- 9. The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore -- References -- Subject Index