- Title Pages
- Asian Englishes Today
- Dedication
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction Philippine English: Linguistic and literary perspectives
- 1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature
- 2 English in Philippine education: Solution or problem?
- 3 English-language media in the Philippines: Description and research
- 4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English
- 5 ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy
- 6 <i>Taglish, or the phantom power of the</i> lingua franca
- 7 Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines
- 8 A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English
- 9 Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary
- 10 Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English
- 11 English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations: Issues, opportunities and research
- 12 Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English
- 13 Negotiating language: Postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English
- 14 ‘This scene so fair’: Filipino English poetry, 1905–2005
- 15 The Philippine short story in English: An overview
- 16 The Filipino novel in English
- 17 Filipino diasporic literature
- 18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English
- 19 Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines
- Index
A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature
A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature
- Chapter:
- (p.12) (p.13) 1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature
- Source:
- Philippine English
- Author(s):
Andrew Gonzalez FSC
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter traces the beginnings of the English language in the Philippines. Soon after the occupation of the Philippines by the United States in 1898, it was spoken, based on the census of 1918, by an educated elite of 896,358 out of 10.3 million people in the islands, undoubtedly with various levels of competence. The chapter also suggests that the English language had found a favorable climate and soil for transplantation in the Philippines. From the first two decades of the English language, a transplanted variety of “Philippine English” was born, with its distinctive pronunciation and style of academic writing.
Keywords: English language, Philippines, United States, Philippine English, academic writing
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- Title Pages
- Asian Englishes Today
- Dedication
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction Philippine English: Linguistic and literary perspectives
- 1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature
- 2 English in Philippine education: Solution or problem?
- 3 English-language media in the Philippines: Description and research
- 4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English
- 5 ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy
- 6 <i>Taglish, or the phantom power of the</i> lingua franca
- 7 Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines
- 8 A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English
- 9 Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary
- 10 Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English
- 11 English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations: Issues, opportunities and research
- 12 Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English
- 13 Negotiating language: Postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English
- 14 ‘This scene so fair’: Filipino English poetry, 1905–2005
- 15 The Philippine short story in English: An overview
- 16 The Filipino novel in English
- 17 Filipino diasporic literature
- 18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English
- 19 Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines
- Index
