Stroud (U. of the Western Cape and bilingual research, Stockholm U.) and Wee (English language and literature, National U. of Singapore) take the use of English in Singapore as a case study of how the growing inequality of globalization is impacting the politics of language. Their topics include social practices and linguistic markets, literacy as a reflexive performance of identity, literacy practice and the performance of identities on ambivalent markets, styling literacy practices inside and outside the classroom, and the dynamics of language distribution in later-modern multi-lingual Singapore. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)