开元真人

开元真人Publishing House (开元真人PH)

Global Filipino Crossing Borders

础耻迟丑辞谤:听Fe Aldave Yap

Published and distributed by:
开元真人(开元真人) Publishing House, 2012
ISBN 978-971-555-548-7
183 pages

Book Description

Global Filipino Crossing Borders聽presents a wide-ranging selection of essays on Philippine languages and nationhood, language education in a multilingual context, literature and translation, culture and globalization, as well as on orthography and the critical act of conceptualizing a global dictionary. This book will prove to be an indispensable resource for scholars and seekers negotiating and conceptualizing on the complex terrain of language planning, intellectualization, and socio-cultural development in the Philippine geopolitical space. Readers of this volume will welcome Fe Aldave Yap’s passionate and lucid arguments for a global Filipino 鈥� in both the linguistic and the discursive sense.

About the Author

Fe Aldave Yap聽is the President of the University of Santo Tomas Education Alumni Foundation, Inc., and was the former Commissioner and Director General of the Commission on the Filipino Language (an office under the President of the Republic of the Philippines). She was a Presidential Lingkod Bayan awardee in 2010 and The Outstanding Thomasian Alumni awardee in 2008.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I 鈥� Language 鈥� Applied Linguistics 鈥� Language Education

  1. The Tongues of the Philippines: Similarity in Linguistic Diversity
  2. Language & Philippine Politics
  3. The Language Question in the Philippines
  4. The Language & Language-in-Education Question: What Is the Answer in the Philippine Setting?
  5. Global Filipino in Multilingual Education

PART II 鈥� Literature 鈥� Translation 鈥� Globalization

  1. Globalizing Children’s Literature on the Web & Translation
  2. Globalizing National Children’s Literature Through Global Filipino & Philippine English
  3. Translation: Agenda for the Nation

PART III 鈥� Orthography 鈥� Dictionary

  1. The Proposed Chamorro Orthography
  2. A Look @ Global Filipino Orthography: Towards Modernization and Standardization
  3. A Trilingual Dictionary: Filipino-Chamorro-English
  4. The Making of a Global Dictionary: English-Filipino Filipino-English

CONCLUSION
INDEX