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(Re)making society : the politics of language, discourse, and identity in the Philippines / T. Ruanni F. Tupas, editor. - Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2007. - xxvi, 262 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Language in Philippine education / Allan B.I. Bernardo -- The language of history / Portia L. Reyes -- Back to class, the ideological structure of the medium of instruction debate in the Philippines / T. Ruanni F. Tupas -- Believing bureaucracy, discourse and identity in a Philippine Baptist Church / Brian Howell -- El Shaddai and the reframing of poverty in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele -- The perfect woman, gendered texts and high technology in the Philippines / Aileen O. Salonga -- The cultural idioms of Filipino transvestism / Rolando B. Tolentino -- Balimbing justice, the many languages of law in the rural Philippines / Jennifer C. Franco -- Spirit of the act, on indicating presences in the Agusan Manobo ritual language / José S. Buenconsejo.

ISBN: 9789715425421

LCCN: 2007316760

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociolinguistics--Philippines.
Language and culture--Philippines.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philippines--Languages.

LC Class. No.: P40.45.P6 / R46 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 306.44599 / R28 2007