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The Philippine Performance Archive Project on Cultural Performance: Keyword analysis, semantic framing, and collection of data, at Conference on Digital Humanities 2017, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 1, 2017

This panel is a preliminary presentation of the project Philippine Performance Archive: Cultural Performances. The first presentation is a general overview of the project and its intended content with a demonstration of how it is envisioned to function as a digital archive, cultural memory, and pedagogical tool. Here, the concept of cultural performance is concretized within the context of performance studies and the context of Philippine society and culture. The second presentation is a discussion of the successes and problems of engaging with archiving via technology (digital...

Cultural performances and local vocabularies: The case of the Philippine Performance Archive Project, at Lectures on Archiving Cultural Performances in the Philippines: Benefits and Dilemmas, University of Nueva Caceres, Naga City, Thursday, September 8, 2016

This presentation provides a background on the Philippine Performance Archive Project, particularly the building of local vocabularies related to cultural performances in the context of the Philippines. It suggests ways to extract meaning, utilize some concepts of semantic frames and event frames in describing/defining vocabulary items pertaining to Philippine cultural performances, which reflect the local knowledge of the community where these cultural performances are practiced.

Ang varayti ng Tagalog sa Batangas: Karanasan ng bayan ng San Nicolas, at Tagalog dialectologies, Museong Pambayan ng Morong, Rizal, Saturday, August 27, 2016

Sa pamamagitan ng papel na ito, tatangkaing suriin ang Tagalog na sinasalita sa Bancoro, San Nicolas, Batangas. Isasagawa ito sa pamamagitan ng pagkukumpara ng mga salitang Tagalog na ginagamit sa kabuuang lalawigan ng Batangas at sa mga salitang ginagamit sa wikang Filipino, batay na rin sa kasalukuyang binubuong corpus ng nasabing wika.

Linguistics and language studies in the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint, at Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP) 20th Anniversary Conference, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Thursday, November 5, 2015

The conscious acceptance and recognition of diversity, particularly in terms of language, of Southeast Asian nations distinguishes the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprint. Thus, the ASEAN’s promotion of languages in the wake of reports from international and local agencies, such as the Enduring Voices Project and Ethnologue, that a significant number of the world’s languages, particularly some of the ASEAN languages, are now endangered, if not extinct, augurs well for the linguistics discipline. This paper will: (1) reiterate...

Revisiting Inonhan: A sequel to the dialectology of Inonhan in Carabao Island, Romblon, at 12th Philippine Linguistics Congress, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Thursday, November 27, 2014

This paper revisits the dialectology research done on Inonhan, language spoken in Carabao Island, Romblon, the rationale of which was the claim of the residents that there existed various speech habits in the different population centres (sitios) within the locality (cf. Javier, 2012). An examination of the percentage of cognate forms showed that they were indeed dialects of the same language (no less than 80 per cent cognancy); however, the apparently erratic behaviour of probable isogloss bundles in some areas posed an...

Comparative analysis of policies on language of education in Malaysia and the Philippines, at International Conference on Language and Culture, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Thursday, November 20, 2014

This study aims to survey, update, and compare the development of instructional language policies in Malaysia and the Philippines, both of which had experienced being colonized, and since then have been challenged as to their capacity for rediscovering identity and sovereignty. The policies are then examined through the concepts ‘nationism’ and ‘nationalism’: through these parameters the study shall explore how the different policies have fared thus far. It will ultimately demonstrate that an ideal language policy is an integration of both the ethnic values and an...

Rebabelizing the Philippines: On the Ayta Mag-antsi language, at 7th National Social Science Congress, PSSCenter, Quezon City, Friday, May 31, 2013

Since the late 20^th century, there has been a growing concern for the “deaths/murders/suicides” of languages around the world, brought about by various pressures such as economic policies, politics, and contacts between societies. Social scientists, particularly linguists, have taken heed of this situation, and consequently, initiated the task of recording, if not resuscitating, such languages. This panel presents current researches on the linguistic situation in the Philippines, attempts being made at language revitalisation, and endeavours in...

Reproblematizing language (in) education in the Philippines: A multidisciplinary perspective, at The 5th ASEAN Linguistics Conference, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur, Thursday, December 22, 2011

This paper calls for an interdisciplinary approach on policy formulation regarding language of education in the Philippines. It has been long debated within the issues of Philippine education that in order for the students to comprehend pieces of instruction, language as the medium is important. The themes are particularly on the following: the language the students should learn, the language that would ensure what they are supposed to learn in that setting, and the other social and political functions of education (Bernardo, 2007). The rationale for the continually shifting...

Growth and advancement of Filipino as a language (of education): The case of the UP Department of Linguistics, at National Conference on Research in Teacher Education 2011, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Thursday, October 20, 2011

This paper presents the parallel development of Filipino as the national language and the primary medium of instruction in the Philippine education milieu, and the Department of Linguistics in the University of the Philippines Diliman, which was originally established in order to create a synthetic language from the different languages in the Philippines. The eventual emergence of the concept of Filipino as a ‘true’ language will be traced. Arguments for and against the existence of Filipino will be discussed, and then the role of UP...

Mashed media: Attitudes of secondary-school students toward English, Filipino, and their mother tongue, at The 14th English in Southeast Asia Conference, University of Macau, Macau, Thursday, December 9, 2010

With the advent of the Republic of the Philippines-Department of Education Order no. 74, s. 2009, a Mother Tongue-based Multilingual approach to educating students has been implemented. Using the learners’ mother tongue to explain curriculum content with eventual transition to the second (Filipino) and the third language (such as English), this multilingual approach would enable students to function equally in their own language, English, and the national language, Filipino. This is the current resolve of the government based on...

Jem R. Javier, PhD

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