Selected Publications
Tan, Peter K W (2021), ‘Names as linguistic capital’. In John E Petrovic and Bedrettin Yazan (eds), Language, Society and Political Economy (London: Routledge), pp 164-180.
Tan, Peter K W (2021), ‘Naming as styling: “inauthenticity” in building names in
Singapore’. In Daniela F. Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey (eds), Language in Place:
Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment (Amsterdam: John
Benjamins), pp 167-188.
Tan, Peter K W (2019) ‘The true name: public
and private housing in Singapore’, Onomastica
Uralica, 14, 133-145.
Tan, Peter K W (2019), ‘Challenges to nationalism in language planning: Street names in Malaysia’. In Gregory Paul Glasgow and Jeremie Bourchard (eds), Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning (New York: Routledge), pp. 61-83.
Tan, P. K. W. (2017). Limits to styling: The case of adjustments in commemorative names. Language and Communication, 57, 29-36.
Tan, Peter K W. (2016), ‘The Limits of Commemorative Naming: A Consideration through Cases of Name Change for University Buildings’. In C. Hough, & D. Izdebska (eds), Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014, Vol. 5: Literary Onomastics. Other Names. Commercial Names . (Vol. 5, 1 ed., pp. 140-147). Glasgow: University of Glasgow.
Tan, Peter K W (2014), ‘Singapore’s balancing act, from the perspective of the linguistic landscape’, Sojourn: Joural of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29(2): 438-466.
Ooi, Vincent B Y and Peter K W Tan (2013), ‘Facebook, linguistic identity and hybridity in Singapore’, in Rani Rubdy and Lubna Alsagoff (eds), The global-local interface and hybridity: exploring language and identity (London: Continuum), pp. 225-244
Tan, Peter K W (2013), ‘Mixed signals: names in the linguistic landscape provided by different agencies in Singapore’, Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic sciences 46(1): 227-250.
Tan, Peter K W (2013), ‘English in Singapore’, International Journal of Language, Translation and intercultural Communication 1(1): 123-138.
Tan, Peter K W (2011), ‘Literary discourse’, in James P Gee and Michael Handford (eds), Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (London: Routledge), pp. 628-641.
Tan, Peter K W (2011), ‘Subversive engineering: building names in Singapore’, in Standley D Brunn (ed.) Engineering earth: the impacts of megaengineering projects (Dordrecht: Springer), pp. 1997-2011.
Tan, Peter K W (2009), ‘Not quite first language, not quite second language either: dictionary entries for learners caught in between’, in Vincent Ooi et al.(eds), Perspectives in lexicography: Asia and beyond (Tel Aviv: K Dictionaries), pp. 193-201.
Tan, Peter K W and Daniel K H Tan (2008), ‘Learners’ attitudes towards non-standard English in Singapore’, World Englishes 27 (3/4): 465–479
Tan, Peter K W (2008), ‘The English language as commodity in Malaysia: the view through the medium-of-instruction debate’, in Peter K W Tan and Rani Rubdy (eds), Language as commodity: global structures, local marketplaces (London: Continuum), pp. 106–121
Tan, Peter K W and Rani Rubdy (2008), ‘Introduction’, in Peter K W Tan and Rani Rubdy (eds), Language as commodity: global structures, local marketplaces (London: Continuum), pp. 1–15
Peter K W Tan and Rani Rubdy (eds) (2008), Language as commodity: global structures, local marketplaces (London: Continuum)
Tan, Peter K W (2007), ‘The struggle for a standard: evidence from place names’, Names: a journal of onomastics 55(4): 387–396
Tan, Peter K W (2006), ‘Towards a standardization of personal names: the case of the ethnic Chinese in Singapore’, Names: a journal of onomastics 54(4): 291–319
Tan, Peter K W; Vincent B Y Ooi and Andy K L Chiang (forthcoming), ‘Internet chat in non-Anglo English contexts: a snapshot view through Singaporean pragmatic particles’, in Masanori Toyota and Judy Noguchi (eds), Speech, writing and context: interdisciplinary perspectives (Osaka: Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University)
Tan, Peter K W (2005), ‘The medium-of-instruction debate in Malaysia: English as a Malaysian language?’, Language problems and language planning 29(1): 47–66
Tan, Peter K W (forthcoming), ‘Is that how we really talk? Speech reporting in Singaporean writing in English’ (the link takes you to a pdf file)
Tan, Peter K W; Vincent B Y Ooi and Andy K L Chiang (2004), ‘Signalling spokenness in personal ads on the web: The case of ESL countries in South East Asia’, in Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (eds), Advances in corpus linguistics: papers from the 23rd international conference on English language research on computerised corpora (ICAME 23) Göteborg 22–26 May 2002 (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 151–167.
Tan, Peter K W (2004), ‘Evolving naming patterns: anthroponymics within a theory of the dynamics of non-Anglo Englishes’, World Englishes 23(3): 367–384.
Tan, Peter K W (2003), ‘Is that how we really talk? Speech reporting in Singaporean writing in English’, in Chitra Sankaran et al. (eds), Complicities: Connections and divisions – perspectives on literatures and cultures of the Asia-Pacific region (Berne: Peter Lang), pp. 346–56.
Tan, Peter K W (2003), ‘Conversation and poetics: A response to Neal R Norrick’, Connotations: A journal for critical debate, Vol 11, 2–3: 301–309.
Tan, Peter K W; Vincent B Y Ooi and Andy K L Chiang (2003) ‘Pragmatic particles in
computer-mediated communication: The case of internet relay chat in Singapore’,
in Proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Speech, Writing and Context (Osaka: Intercultural
Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University), pp.
179–184.
Tan, Peter K W (2001), ‘Englishised names? Naming patterns amongst ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans’ (the link takes you to a pdf file)[1], English Today 17/4: 45–53
Tan, Peter K W (2001) ‘Melaka or Malacca; Kallang or Care-lang: Lexical innovation and nativisation in Malaysian and Singaporean English’, in V Ooi (ed.), Evolving Identities: The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia (Singapore: Times Academic), pp. 140–167
Tan, Peter K W (2001), Review of Mick Wallis and Simon Shepherd (1998), Studying Plays (London: Arnold), in Language and Literature 10/1, pp. 94–96
Tan, Peter K W (2000), ‘Does Bad English Make Bad Economics?’, NUS Economic Journal 36, pp. 145–150
Tan, Peter K W (1999), ‘Speech presentation in three Singaporean novels in English’, World Englishes 18/3: 359–372
Tan, Peter K W (1998), ‘Malay loan words across different dialects of English’, English Today 14/4, 44–50
Tan, Peter K W (1998), ‘Advice on doing your stylistics essay on a dramatic text: An example from Alan Ayckbourn’s The Revengers’ Comedies’, in J Culpeper, M Short and P Verdonk (eds.), Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (London: Routledge), pp. 161–171
Higgleton, Elaine; Ooi, Vincent B Y; Alsagoff, L; Bao, Z; Tan, Peter K W and Wee, Lionel H A (1997), Times-Chambers Essential English Dictionary, 2nd edn. (Edinburgh: Chambers-Harrap PLC & Federal Publications)
Tan, Peter K W (1994), Key concepts: pragmatics, English Language Teaching Journal 48/1, 100
Tan, Peter K W (1993), A stylistics of drama with special focus on Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’ (Singapore: Singapore University Press)