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Translation as Argument: The Nontranslation of Loob in Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution
- Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Volume 62, Number 1, March 2014
- pp. 3-28
- 10.1353/phs.2014.0002
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This article discusses Ileto’s nontranslation of the Tagalog concept of loob as integral to the argument and rhetorical persuasiveness of his seminal work, . The meaning of loob that readers gather is a deeply religious and mystical one. However, the idiom of loob has multifarious and varied usages, and in the vast majority of cases loob is a prosaic term. Using some methods in the field of corpus linguistics, this article demonstrates that reambiguating Ileto’s translations could lead to different interpretations.