{"id":17318,"date":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2016\/12\/20\/celebrating-singapores-development-an-analysis-of-the-millennium-stamps\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:51:39","slug":"celebrating-singapores-development-an-analysis-of-the-millennium-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2016\/12\/20\/celebrating-singapores-development-an-analysis-of-the-millennium-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A chapter\u00a0titled, ‘Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps’ (2004) in the book ‘Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change’ by A\/P Chng Huang Hoon’s (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) studies the Singapore Stamp Millennium Collection which was commissioned on 20 December 1999.<\/p>\n

Chng illuminates the messages embedded within the texts of these stamps and investigates their strategic conception in contributing to the state\u2019s nation-building process. In one analysis, Chng brings to light the use of a dual classification scheme of two opposing values \u2013 i.e. \u2018local\u2019 versus \u2018global\u2019 as indicated by the word choices, \u201crenaissance city\u201d and \u201cworld class homes\u201d used in some of the stamps. One can appreciate the efforts in projecting an image of Singapore that is simultaneously cosmopolitan yet vernacular. Chng also identifies how the clause structure of the stamp marking the \u2018Japanese Occupation\u2019 took a specific part in history and made it into a \u2018milestone\u2019 worthy of celebration. This stamp strategically depicts scenes \u2018before and after\u2019 World War II to remind Singaporeans today of the peace they now enjoy. Such a characterization of a significant period in history ignores the traumatic experiences that the older generation had lived through during the dark days of the war \u2013 \u2018memorable moments\u2019 that may instead bring feelings of grief rather than of triumph and pride.<\/p>\n

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A chapter\u00a0titled, ‘Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps’ (2004) in the book ‘Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change’ by A\/P Chng Huang Hoon’s (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) studies the Singapore Stamp Millennium Collection which was commissioned on 20 December 1999. Chng illuminates the messages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28036,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318\/revisions\/28036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}