- Title Pages
- Asian Englishes Today
- Dedication
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- [UNTITLED]
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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 Taglish, or the phantom power of the 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
World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English
World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English
- Chapter:
- (p.66) (p.67) 4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English
- Source:
- Philippine English
- Author(s):
T. Ruanni
F. Tupas
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter explores the ideological foundations of a particular paradigm in the sociolinguistics of English, that of “world Englishes” (or “WE”), within theoretical and political contexts. It demonstrates how WE, with special reference to the case of “Philippine English,” is sustained by a particular discourse of postcoloniality, one that is markedly postcolonial in spirit and form but, on historical and sociopolitical grounds, is ideologically conservative and dangerously complicit with recent ideas and practices of neoliberal globalization, the source of hotly contested debates because of its connection with rising global inequalities and fundamentalisms.
Keywords: world Englishes, Philippine English, postcoloniality, neoliberal globalization, global inequalities, fundamentalisms
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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 Taglish, or the phantom power of the 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
