Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements The three chapters from D. V. S. Manarpaac, Vicente L. Rafael, and Simeon Dumdum et al. were previously published elsewhere, but are included in this collection because of the value they bring. The editors wish to thank Rodopi publishers for permission to reprint the article by D. V. S. Manarpaac, ‘“When I was a child I spake as a child”: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy’, first published in The Politics of English as a World Language, edited by Christian Mair, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2003. We also wish to thank Duke University Press, for their permission to reprint the chapter from Vicente L. Rafael, ‘Taglish, or the phantom power of the lingua franca’, first published in White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, by Vicente Rafael, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Finally, we wish to thank Blackwell for permission to reprint the chapter by Simeon Dumdum, Timothy Mo, and Resil Mojares, ‘In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English’, originally published in World Englishes vol. 23, 1, 2004, 191–98. ...