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| The grammar of Singapore English Z Bao, A Pakir, I Talib, L Wee | 164 | 1998 |
| English in new cultural contexts: Reflections from Singapore JA Foley (No Title), 1998 | 123 | 1998 |
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| Narrative theory IS Talib | 22* | 2008 |
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| Malaysia and Singapore IS Talib The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 51 (4), 617-630, 2016 | 14* | 2016 |
| Singaporean Literature in English IBS Talib Singapore Institute of Management; Oxford University Press, 1998 | 9 | 1998 |
| D&S Forum IS Talib Discourse & Society 6 (4), 566-567, 1995 | 9 | 1995 |
| Ghosh, Language, and The Hungry Tide IS Talib History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction. Ed. Chitra …, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Conrad's" Nostromo" and the Reader's Understanding of Anachronic Narratives IS Talib The Journal of Narrative Technique 20 (1), 1-21, 1990 | 8 | 1990 |
| Malaysia and Singapore IS Talib The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 41 (4), 121-139, 2006 | 7 | 2006 |
| Nonnative English literature and the world literature syllabus IBS Talib National Council of Teachers of English, 1996 | 7 | 1996 |
| Malaysia and Singapore IS Talib The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40 (4), 139-156, 2005 | 6 | 2005 |
| The language of speech in Singapore fiction IBS Talib Ethos Book, 1998 | 5 | 1998 |
| Emigration as a Resistant Factor in the Creation of a National Literature: Rex Shelley's The Shrimp People IBS Talib Michigan State University Press, 1997 | 5 | 1997 |
| Malaysia and Singapore IS Talib The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54 (4), 643-660, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| The encroachment of English in Malaysian cultural expression IS Talib The politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific …, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
| Towards a Multimodal Dictionary of Narration. Ooi, VBY, A. Pakir, IS Talib and PKW Tan (Eds.). 2009 IS Talib Perspectives in Lexicography: Asia and Beyond. New and Selected Papers from …, 2009 | 4 | 2009 |
