Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary

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Contents Series editor’s preface Acknowledgements List of contributors Map of the Philippines Introduction Philippine English: Linguistic and literary perspectives Kingsley Bolton and Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista Part I: The Sociolinguistic Context 1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature Andrew Gonzalez, FSC 2 English in Philippine education: Solution or problem? Allan B. I. Bernardo 3 English-language media in the Philippines: Description and research Danilo T. Dayag 4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English T. Ruanni F. Tupas 5 ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy D. V. S. Manarpaac xi xiii xv xvii 1 11 13 29 49 67 87 viii Contents 6 Taglish, or the phantom power of the lingua franca Vicente L. Rafael Part II: Linguistic Forms 7 Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines Curtis D. McFarland 8 A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English Ma. Lourdes G. Tayao 9 Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary Kingsley Bolton and Susan Butler 10 Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista 11 English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations: Issues, opportunities, and research Jane Lockwood, Gail Forey, and Helen Price Part III: Philippine English Literature 12 Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English Isabel Pefianco Martin 13 Negotiating language: Postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English Lily Rose Tope 14 ‘This scene so fair’: Filipino English poetry, 1905–2005 Gémino H. Abad 15 The Philippine short story in English: An overview Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo 16 The Filipino novel in English Caroline S. Hau 101 129 131 157 175 201 219 243 245 261 279 299 317 Contents ix 17 Filipino diasporic literature Alfred A. Yuson 18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English Simeon Dumdum, Timothy Mo, and Resil Mojares Part IV: Resources 19 Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista Index 337 357 369 371 395 ...