Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading state communication as public culture / David Birch -- The nation-state and the sociology of Singapore / Lian Kwen Fee -- "Aseanising" Singapore / John Ritchie -- Globalising discourses / Warwick Mules -- The free market's second coming / Philip Holden -- Social virtues as cultural text / Yao Souchou -- Imag(in)ing citizenship / Irvin Lim Fang Jau -- Family life advertisement and the narrative of hetrosexual sociality / Michelle M. Lazar -- What does it feel like to be a single female 20 something Singapore graduate? / Andrew Goatly -- Looking over the edge / Roger V.P. Winder -- The scenic route versus the information superhighway / Chris Berry -- The contexts of critical reading and writing / Alastair Pennycook.