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Silence and its Derivatives Conversations Across Disciplines
This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives,...
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Exploring the Role of Teacher Talk in the Gender Identity Construction of Filipino Children
This chapter focuses on exploring the effects of the teacher’s unconscious or conscious transferring of gender knowledge to private school primary...
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Language Rights and the Law in Iceland
This chapter focuses on the ways in which Iceland addresses the language rights of the native Icelandic-speaking majority vis-à-vis Icelandic Sign...
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COVID-19 Translated: An Account of the Translation and Multilingual Practices Enacted in Hong Kong’s Linguistic Landscape During the Pandemic Crisis Communication
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a dramatic upsurge in medical and scientific research. However, despite the importance of language in...
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Constraint reranking in diachronic OT: binary-feet and word-minimum phenomena in Austronesian
Languages throughout the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian exhibit a range of sound changes which all appear to be triggered by the presence...
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Eh Across Englishes: A Corpus-Pragmatic Analysis of the Corpus of Global Web-Based English
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic marker eh , which is typical of spoken discourse, in written online discourse from nine varieties of...
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Foregrounding the Ordinariness of Translingualism in Philippine Education: Towards Equitable Assessment for Multilingual Learners
Most Filipinos are multilingual and translanguaging is ubiquitous in all aspects of Philippine society, including in education. And yet, many...
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Investing in Translanguaging Practices and Claiming the Right to Speak
Drawing on Darvin and Norton’s (2015) model that locates investment at the intersection of identity, capital, and ideology, this chapter demonstrates...
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Trade Policy as a Language Policy
Chapter 2 provides the contextual background of the language policy under investigation. It discusses a...
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Translanguaging in Multilingual Local and Global Spaces: Summary and Conclusion
Translanguaging in Philippine education and other public spaces has shown that it may be used to empower multilingual speakers and promote linguistic...
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Policy Actors and Goals in Negotiation
This chapter pays specific attention to policy actors’ participation in language policy process and the diverse goals they pursue in the EPA...
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Policy Discourses in the EPA Programme
Chapter 3 proffers the conceptual underpinnings of the book, together with the data collection and...
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A Space for Myself and My Language: University Students’ Translanguaging Practices and Agency
For many years, multilingual learners have been taught writing using native speaker norms that focus either on the process or product of writing,...
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Doing Subaltern Linguistics
Subaltern linguistics is work that empowers local ways of being, doing, and saying by encouraging and supporting local economies, practices,...
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Language Training as a Site of Language Policy Creation, Interpretation and Appropriation
Chapter 5 examines the language policy process represented in the EPA policy documents, focusing on the...
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Regaining Balance: Relearning “Religion”
Why is it that while religions teach peace, people kill and exploit each other in the name of religion?
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Cultural Keywords in Philippine English
Following Williams’s (1976) seminal work on cultural keywords in English, other language researchers have embraced the term, applying different...
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Introduction: What Can Linguistics and Language(s) Contribute to Development Practices?
Language use and language choice play a crucial role in achieving development goals and in development work. This chapter calls for a deeper...