scholarly journals Promoting Spanish Language in the Philippines: Politics, Representations, and Discourses

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Language Promotion ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The Way

Over 150 languages are spoken in the Philippines. Considering that only English and Filipino are the official national languages, this is a contentious arena in the Philippines. In this context, the Spanish government has been promoting the Spanish language, adding another layer of political meaning, bringing to the present some of the old colonial discourses. This article explores Spain’s promotion of the Spanish language in the Philippines. Following a semiotic approach, it analyses Spanish official discourses on language and the way that they are represented in several Spanish official exhibitions about the Philippines. This work argues that the Spanish language is portrayed in terms of symbolic power. Furthermore, focusing on Pierre Bourdieu´s concepts, the politics of the Spanish language promotion are analysed in the midst of those language policies at play in the Philippines.

scholarly journals O empoderamento da mulher a partir da experiência pentecostal

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando De Carvalho Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sacred Canopy

O presente artigo tem por intuito abordar o empoderamento da mulher a partir da experiência pentecostal. Os referenciais teóricos para tal empreitada são tomados dos clássicos das ciências de religião como, por exemplo, Cliford Geertz A interpretação das culturas (1989); O poder simbólico (2002) de Pierre Bourdieu; O dossel sagrado de Peter Berger (1985) dentre outros e textos que refletem a partir da realidade da mulher no pentecostalismo como é o caso de Carismáticos e pentecostais (1996) Maria das Dores Campos Machado e Experiências religiosas de mulheres pentecostais chilenas (2010) de Elizabeth del Carmen Salazar Sanzana em articulação com outros textos. Inicialmente o artigo procura levantar bases na tradição bíblica sobre a figura da mulher para em seguida pontuar a história do movimento pentecostal e papel na mulher nele. Por fim trata da experiência pentecostal no mundo da mulher e como isso interfere em sua realidade.This article aims to address the empowerment of women from the Pentecostal experience. The theoretical references for this work are taken from the classics of the religious sciences, such as Cliford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures (1989); The symbolic power (2002) of Pierre Bourdieu; The sacred canopy of Peter Berger (1985) among others and texts that reflect from the reality of the woman in Pentecostalism as is the case of Charismatic and Pentecostal (1996) Maria das Dores Campos Machado and Religious Experiences of Chilean Pentecostal Women (2010) of Elizabeth del Carmen Salazar Sanzana in articulation with other texts. Initially the article tries to establish bases in the biblical tradition on the figure of the woman to next to punctuate the history of the Pentecostal movement and paper in the woman in him. Finally it deals with the Pentecostal experience in the world of women and how it interferes with their reality.

scholarly journals Language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands between 1808 and 1930

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Gasca Jiménez ◽  
Maira E. Álvarez ◽  
Sylvia Fernández
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This article examines the impact of the anglicizing language policies implemented after the annexation of the U.S. borderlands to the United States on language use by describing the language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands across different sociohistorical periods from 1808 to 1930. Sixty Hispanic-American newspapers (374 issues) from 1808 to 1980 were selected for analysis. Despite aggressive anglicizing legislation that caused a societal shift of language use from Spanish into English in most borderland states after the annexation, the current study suggests that the newspapers resisted assimilation by adhering to the Spanish language in the creation of original content and in translation.

Time Lags And Differential Pace: Bullet Time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-165
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tung
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Jessica Hagedorn ◽  
Us History ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with the way Wesely’s record-breaking pinhole photographs from Open Shutter (2004) use the effect of blur to connect relative rates of movement to larger histories as such. Similarly, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929) is focused on racialised time lag not simply between two points on a single historical line, but between different histories that move at different rates and go their own ways. Here, the temporal aspect of double consciousness – of always living in someone else’s time and yet also located in a distinctive history marked by laggy access – connects with postcolonial treatments of time lag and the way in which historical behindness opens onto the tangle of histories that appears synecdochically in the plane of the present as heterogeneity. Finally, Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle (2003) stages the collision, overlap and differences between the story of Magellan’s ‘discovery’ of the Philippines, the 1970s hoax of the uncontacted ‘Stone Age’ Tasaday people, the filming of contemporary US history in Apocalypse Now in Mindanao, and the long-running Moro insurgency. Each of these texts contains a bullet-time scene in which the dilation of the encounter of disjunctive rhythms reveals a heterochronic assemblage of time-paths and historical frames.

English in the Philippines: A Case of Rootedness and Routedness

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Bejay Villaflores Bolivar
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
First Language ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
National Language ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Online Communities Of Practice ◽  
Local Languages

The researcher focuses on a hybrid form of English and Cebuano-Bisaya, one of the dominant local languages in the Philippines. Drawing from the Extra and Intra-territorial Model of Buschfeld and Kautzsch, the article argues that the emergence of Bislish is propelled by extra- and intra-territorial forces: first, language policies and a regional resistance against Tagalog as the national language; second, the surge of globalization and the Cebuano speakers’ endeavor for upward and outward mobility. The researcher surmounts that the prominence of Bislish in various domains, particularly in online communities of practice, is tied to the speakers’ attitudes of rootedness and routedness. The study affirms the viability of the EIF Model in explicating cases of language hybridity in postcolonial contexts.

The Sylheti Bari and the Londoni Flat

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Zeitlyn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Attitudes Toward School ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Bangladeshi Families ◽  
British Bangladeshi ◽  
The Way

This article examines the ways in which migration from rural homesteads in Sylhet, Bangladesh, to urban flats in London has affected the practices of British Bangladeshi families around gender and childhood. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the “Kabyle house,” I describe relations between the spatial arrangement of homes and practices. Analyzing the “Sylheti bari” (rural homestead) and contrasting it with the “ Londoni (British Bangladeshi) flat,” I describe the significance of the way in which ideas of “inside” and “outside” have translated from one setting to another. I will show how the translation of these ideas to the urban landscape in London affects British Bangladeshi practices surrounding headscarf wearing, children’s play, and socializing, as well as attitudes toward school and language.

The Male Romantic Poet as Gothic Subject: Keats's Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-454
Author(s):  
Ellen Brinks
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
The Way

A previously overlooked Gothic subtext in John Keats's Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, his 1818 and 1819 fragmentary works on poetic election, calls his epic project of Bildung into question. Whether it is Saturn, Apollo, or himself that the narrator witnesses, his returns to scenes where an effeminized male body is subjected to pain and domination become a way to explore questions of legitimation and empowerment when those can no longer be presupposed by the writing subject. While recent readings of these poems have tended to align their fragmentation with Keats's refusal of mastery, this essay claims that Keats identifies male masochism and effeminacy as a perverse condition of, rather than an impediment to, the attainment of symbolic power. Apollo's eroticized submission in Hyperion and the poet's self-castigating rituals in The Fall of Hyperion (as well as his return to the Titans) stage the very experience that they supposedly stand in the way of-legitimation. Not only does bodily dispossession directly measure symbolic possession, but also, through his doubles, Keats recognizes himself in this negative loss of power.

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