Vernacular Virtual: Toward a Philippine New Materialist Poetics
This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order to open up the possibility of a new materialist regard of literature, one that specifically stems from the Philippine tropics.
Christian Jil Benitez
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“The Laryngectomee Guide” Philippine Edition
Dear Editor, I am happy to announce that “The Laryngectomee Guide” Philippine Edition is available now in paperback and eBook. The eBook is FREE. The translation from English to Tagalog was supervised by Professor Alfredo Pontejos Jr.
Itzhak Brook
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The Philippines is no stranger to geopolitics. It stood near the frontier of ideological struggles as the Cold War raged in the Asia-Pacific. Not only did American bases in the Philippines figure in the Korea and Vietnam conflicts, but the Philippine ...
Yujuico, Emmanuel
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Same-verb different-particle phrasal verbs in Philippine English [PDF]
English preposition is one of the hardest features to learn and master, especially by ‘nonnative’ speakers of the English language; hence, several Filipinos tend to interchange particle/preposition in phrasal verbs (PhVs) (e.g., fill up and fill out). As
Gefilloyd L. De Castro
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Openings of telephone conversations in Philippine English [PDF]
This study provides a corpus-based description of telephone-conversation openings in Philippine English. Data for the analysis of telephone conversations in Philippine English come from the Philippine component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-
Ariane Macalinga Borlongan +1 more
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Argumentation in legal discourse: A contrastive analysis of concession in Philippine and American Supreme Court decisions [PDF]
The Supreme Court, being the highest deciding body that ends legal controversies, drafts decisions that eventually become part and parcel of the constitution that protects the rights of citizens.
Anne Richie G. Balgos
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Book Review: Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol. 1: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu by Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. and Robert B. Kaplan [PDF]
RICHARD B. BALDAUF JR. AND ROBERT B. KAPLAN (Eds.). Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol. 1: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2006. pp. 239. Hb £ 34.95.
Shrestha, Prithvi
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The Yapian Classification of the Vocabulary of the Austronesian Visayan-Cebuano Language
After the 1898 Philippine revolution, the English language was introduced in the country by the Americans and it began to surmount in the consciousness of the Filipino people.
Joanna Z. De Catalina +1 more
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Traveling Yellow Peril: Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan's English Teaching Industry [PDF]
Contemporary U.S. white migrants working in Japan long-term as English teachers find themselves in an increasingly precarious labor market. When reacting to industry flexibilization, the U.S.
Owens, Christina D.
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The Cultural Worldview of Filipinos through Philippine-English Proverbs
Proverbs are linguistic expressions of cultural truths about people’s values and beliefs handed down from generation to generation. Thus, for cross-cultural communicative competence and effective social interactions with Filipinos, understanding their ...
Payung Cedar, Supaporn Kongsirirat
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