BAG Lectures
The Br Andrew Gonzalez FSC
Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics & Language Education
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Established on February 29, 1996 and is managed in perpetuity by the De La Salle University Science Foundation, Inc.
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To honor an intellectual giant, a distinguished linguist, teacher, scholar, humanist, writer, administrator, a builder of persons and institutions, a man of vision and mission, a doer, a Christian brother, and a Filipino patriot
Michael Tanangkingsing
National Taipei University of Technology
The marking of weak stance in Cebuano
Demonstrative forms in Cebuano are highly versatile and can serve discourse deictic, discourse marking, and placeholding functions. Some of the demonstratives have also developed into speaker stance markers. Using data from face-to-face conversations, this study examines how Cebuano demonstratives have extended their use beyond the referential domain. Specifically, Cebuano kanang is often used as a repair marker and filler, as a topic marker and mental staging device for upcoming information, as well as a hedge when a speaker is dealing with sensitive or awkward topics. This study also compares kanang with other clause-initial stance markers, in particular negation markers and interjectory particles, to mark varying stance intensities.
2023
February 28, 2023
2 PM to 4 PM
Room A1403, AGH Bldg
De La Salle University
Michael Tanangkingsing obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies in Fu-jen Catholic University and at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics in National Taiwan University. He started teaching at the National Taipei University of Technology in 2009 and was appointed Chief of International Cooperation under the Office of International Affairs from 2012-2016. From 2016 to 2019, he served as Chair of the Department of English and from 2019 onwards, as Deputy Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He wrote A functional reference grammar of Cebuano as his doctoral dissertation and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Philippine Journal of Linguistics since 2017. His research interests include syntax, pragmatics, and discourse analysis of Cebuano, specifically clitic modals, demonstratives, pronouns, and particles; he also collaborates with Philippine linguists in research projects on Philippine languages. He enjoys reading and sings in a choir.
Prof. Dr. Rochelle Irene G. Lucas
De La Salle University
The Hanunoo Mangyan e-dictionary mobile application: development & prospects
This paper walks through the process of developing a lexicographic project that aims to help in the documentation of Hanunoo Mangyan, one of the languages of the Mangyan peoples in Mindoro. Recent language contact with lowlanders has prompted this ethnolinguistic group to use other languages apart from their own native tongue. This linguistic phenomenon may lead to language shift and eventually loss, warranting more efforts to document and to develop programs that promote the positive maintenance of this language . While our ethnolinguistic vitality study seems to show an impressive picture of their general language use, the Hanunoo Mangyan language might be critically endangered because of the limited domains where its native speakers could use it. The latter could be attributed to the limited use of their writing system. Thus, the Hanunoo Mangyan e-dictionary mobile application was conceptualized and developed— built on PHP Laravel for the Android platform. The data was collected utilizing the Rapid Word Collection (RWC) developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). The study hopes to share the process of the e-dictionary creation, its development with the aid of technology, and various prospects, including its potential use for second language learning and a possible replication in other endangered Philippine languages.
2022
February 26, 2022
10 AM to 12 NN
Zoom
Meeting ID: 980 8849 2961, Password: PChair2022
Rochelle Irene G. Lucas is a Full Professor, Research Fellow and Chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics and former Vice Dean of the Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education, De La Salle University-Manila. She has published in Scopus and ISI indexed journals on psycholinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, second language acquisition, motivation, language anxiety, and alternative assessment.
She was a Fellow at the International Deans' Course (IDC) under the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in 2010-2011. She was former President of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) (2012-2015) and Secretary of the Comparative Education Society of the Philiipines (CESP) (2013-2017). She is a Board member of various professional organizations such as: Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), Philipppine Social Science Council and Social Science Research Ethics Board (PSSC-SSERCB). She has also been appointed as Field Contributor for Ethnologue (Languages of the World) an international language documentation website.
She has recently completed a language documentation research on Hanunoo Mangyan funded by the DOST-National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) and is a co-reseacher in a three-year Erasmus Mundus project for Science teachers in the country.
She is this year’s DOST- National Research Council of Philippines (NRCP) recipient of the Achievement Award for Division 1 (Governmental, National and International Policies).
Naonori Nagaya, Ph.D.
The University of Tokyo
Usage-based Philippine linguistics
This talk explores a usage-based approach to Tagalog and other Philippine languages (Langacker 1988 2008; Bybee 2010). In this approach, no fundamental distinction between “performance” and “competence” is posited, and all language units are recognized as arising from usage events (Janda 2019: 10). Methodologically, the importance of usage in linguistic analysis is emphasized: “usage patterns, frequency of occurrence, variation, and change are all taken to provide direct evidence about cognitive representation” (Bybee & Beckner 2009: 953). In this talk, I will provide three case studies of Tagalog based on corpora and data extracted from websites: (i) lexical semantics (the polysemy of mukha ‘face’), (ii) relative clauses, and (iii) sentence-final particle e. It will be shown that usage-based approaches to language allow us to better understand Philippine languages.
2021
March 6, 2021
10 AM to 12 NN
Naonori Nagaya is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Nori is a linguist specializing in Austronesian languages of the Philippines and Indonesia. His research interests lie in morphosyntax and discourse in Tagalog and other Austronesian languages. He got a BA in linguistics from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Rice University in Houston, USA. Nori has published papers on Philippine languages in international journals, including Language and Linguistics and Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. He is also an author of several articles on Philippine languages and cultures for the general public.
Shirley N. Dita
De La Salle University, Manila
Philippine Linguistics: Looking Back, Moving Forward
2020
Ariane Macalinga Borlongan
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Rethinking Br. Andrew Gonzalez on Philippine English
2019
Aldrin P. Lee
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Redressing Linguicism in the Philippines: A Linguistic Human Rights (LHR)-Based Approach
2018
Lawrence A. Reid
University of Hawai'i
Revisiting the Position of Philippine Languages
in the Austronesian Family
2016
Past Professorial Chair Lectures
Shirley N. Dita (De La Salle University, Manila)
Professorial Chair Holder 2020
“Philippine Linguistics: Looking Back, Moving Forward "
Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Professorial Chair Holder 2019
“Rethinking Br. Andrew Gonzalez on Philippine English "
Aldrin P. Lee (University of the Philippines, Diliman)
Professorial Chair Holder 2018
“Redressing Linguicism in the Philippines: A Linguistic Human Rights (LHR)-Based Approach"
Lawrence A. Reid (University of Hawai'i)
Professorial Chair Holder 2016
“Revisiting the Position of Philippine Languages
in the Austronesian Family"
Loy M. Lising
Professorial Chair Holder 2015
“The linguistic ideologies of multilingualism and skilled migration: The case of Filipino skilled migrants in the Australian diaspora”
Marilu R. Madrunio
Professorial Chair Holder 2013
“Language, power, and control in Philippine courtroom discourse”
James Martin
Professorial Chair Holder 2012
“Modelling and mentoring: The yin and yang of teaching and learning from home through schoool
William Hall
Professorial Chair Holder 2011
“New trends in Philippine language assessment and documentation”
Kingsley Bolton
Professorial Chair Holder 2010
“Remembering Br. Andrew”
Topsie Ruanni F. Tupas
Professorial Chair Holder 2009
“(Re)discovering Philippine applied linguistics: Language and secessionism in Muslim Mindanao“
Resty M. Cena
Professorial Chair Holder 2008
“Tagalog: Driving on the left side of the road”
Charles Mann
Professorial Chair Holder 2007
“Implementing Nigeria’s language education policy: The gap between theory and practice“
Hsiu-chuan Liao
Professorial Chair Holder 2006
“Philippine linguistics: The state of the art 1981-2005”
David Paul R. Zorc
Professorial Chair Holder 2005
“The state and directions of Philippine linguistics and language study”
Emma S. Castillo
Professorial Chair Holder 2004
“CACALLA as both a language teaching and a language testing framework”
Estefania S. de Guzman
Professorial Chair Holder 2003
“Is the medium of instruction debate in the Philippines closing in?“
J. Stephen Quakenbush
Professorial Chair Holder 2002
“Philippine linguistics from an SIL perspective: Trends and prospects”
Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista
Professorial Chair Holder 2001
“Studies of Philippine English: Implications for language teaching“
Teodoro A. Llamzon
Professorial Chair Holder 2000
“An update on the intellectualization of Filipino“
Emy M. Pascasio
Professorial Chair Holder 1999
“A comparison of the correlates of the English and the Filipino language proficiency tests for college freshmen“
Leonard Newell
Professorial Chair Holder 1998
“The nature of a learner’s dictionary”
Curtis D. McFarland
Professorial Chair Holder 1997
“English enrichment of Filipino”
Bonifacio P. Sibayan
Professorial Chair Holder 1996
“To be globally competitive with intellectualized Filipino (and English)“