The Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) officially partners with The Chinoy Archives (TCA) on May 5, 2019. Both organizations are aligned in the advocacy for Philippine language documentation and the advancement of Philippine linguistics. The partnership aims to accelerate the fulfillment of the objectives of both organizations, respectively. Particularly, it hopes to increase the presence of Sino-Philippine languages in regional, national, and international research. The terms of the partnership include the launching of the The Chinoy Archives and Linguistic Society of the Philippines Scribe Award (TCA-LSP Scribe Award). Details can be found here: https://www.lsphil.net/awards. They also include jointly hosting The Chinoy Archives Language and Culture Series (TCALCS). Held at least once a year, TCALCS is a series of talks and workshops that creates awareness and seeks to inspire scholars to join the advocacy for Sino-Philippine language and culture documentation. TCA is a non-profit Chinese Filipino language and culture documentation initiative (www.tinyurl.com/chinoyarchives) created to spread awareness and generate interest in Chinese Filipino ‘Chinoy’/Filipino-Chinese linguistics and language documentation. It has the primary aim of establishing solid (socio)linguistic databases (i.e. the Archives) and team of researchers, scholars, and linguists that are interested in investigating and preserving the Chinoy culture(s) and identit(ies) through the documentation of Chinoy languages, varieties, and linguistic phenomena. It is committed to working with the Chinoy community as well as local and international organizations that uphold its advocacy. It does this by organizing seminars, workshops, and training programs. Apart from awareness and documentation, TCA hopes to be involved in the revitalization of Chinoy varieties within, and perhaps beyond, the Chinese Filipino community.

The first ever Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference (LSPIC2019) has just concluded. It was celebrated as part of the 50th anniversary of Linguistic Society of the Philippines and was held from ​March 7-9, 2019 at the De La Salle University of the Philippines. There were 180 paper presentations and 33 poster presentations. The plenary speakers included Edgar Schneider, Ee Low, David Gil, and Marilu Madrunio. Conference workshops were conducted by Andrew Moody, Loy Lising, Jong-bok Kim, Aiden Yeh, Aurelio Vilbar, and Jesus Federico C. Hernandez. A special plenary panel was also created with Anne Pakir, Jong-bok Kim, Andrew Moody and Shirley Dita. This year, there were six themed panels held by the following universities. Ateneo de Manila University (English), De La Salle University (English and Applied Linguistics), Philippine Normal University, University of Santo Tomas (English), and the University of the Philippines Diliman (Linguistics, English Language). The details are in the LSPIC 2019 Book of Abstracts online. LSP conferences provide venues for linguists, language researchers, scholars, practitioners, teachers, and students to share and discuss issues and themes pertinent to linguistics and language education. Presentations usually revolve around current research on Philippine languages, hyphenated fields in linguistics, and English language teaching in the Philippines and in the region. The aim of this year’s conference is to highlight how research in Philippine linguistics over the years have grown, expanded, and evolved.

Francis B. Tatel (University of the Philippines, Diliman) is the winner of this year's Linguistic Society of the Philippines Outstanding Graduate Paper (LSP-OGP) Award. He presented "One step closer to Phase 4 in Schneider's Dynamic Model", where he was said to receive praise from Edgar Schneider himself. In this paper, Tatel provides more evidence of Philippine English entering the fourth stage of Schneider's dynamic model, claiming that the 'complaint tradition' or the widespread sociolinguistic phenomenon where the public expresses its dismay in the apparent decline in language standards (Milroy & Milroy, 2012), is diminishing. He bases this claim through a diachronic investigation of several major Philippine newspapers. The abstract of his paper available below. The Linguistic Society of the Philippines Outstanding Graduate Paper (LSP-OGP) Award is sponsored by Shirley N. Dita. It seeks to inspire young scholars whose interests are in line with her fields of interest: Philippine languages, World Englishes, and Corpus Linguistics. One step closer to Phase 4 in Schneider's Dynamic Model Abstract This paper examines linguistic insecurity among Filipinos as a formidable hindrance to the progress of Philippine English (PhE) in Schneider’s Dynamic Model. Using Watts’ sociocognitive approach to language, together with Rosenberg and Hovlands’ tripartite model of attitude, the complex connection among language myths in the Philippines, standard-language ideology and prescriptivism, as sources of linguistic insecurity, is unraveled with the aim of showing that PhE is progressing towards endonormative stabilization, albeit slowly and inconspicuously. Moreover, this paper introduces the concept of debate tradition, a counter-discourse to the complaint tradition, and advances that it is a powerful catalyst in the alteration of linguistic prescriptivism. This paper claims that it is necessary to alter the discourse archive of prescriptivism that governs General American English for PhE norm to be completely accepted and adopted by Filipinos. To prove that prescriptivism is diminishing, the change in language attitude towards PhE is shown by comparing the results of early and recent surveys. Finally, a graph is presented that clearly shows the weakening of the complaint tradition, which is a strong indicator of endonormative stabilization, as Schneider has asserted. Keywords: complaint tradition, Dynamic Model, linguistic insecurity, prescriptivism, standard language ideology

The Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL), the official publication of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), was named as the BEST-SELLING SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL under the Philippine Social Science Council! Receiving the award are Andrew Bernardo, current LSP President, Rochelle Garcia Lucas, 2012-2015 president, and Shirley Dita, 2015-2018 president. The awarding happened at the TERTULIA dinner, in celebration of the 50th founding anniversary of PSSC! Congratulations to LSP, the previous editors-in-chief, editorial consultants, and contributors, for this achievement!

The Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL) - the official publication of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) - is now an OPEN-ACCESS journal! Browse through our e-collection here: http://www.lsphil.net/philippine-journal-of-linguistics

Today, the Linguistic Society of the Philippines formally partners with Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) for the 2018 LSP-National Conference and General Meeting. For more details and future updates, please visit the official page: www.lsphil.net/2018lspncgm

NEXUS. According to the dictionary, it is a connection or series of connections linking two or more things; it is also the central point of connections. As an offshoot of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), NEXUS aspires to be the center of networks, bridging scholars of various disciplines (not only linguistics!) for a better tomorrow. The page aims to provide scholars with up to date news regarding conferences, events, and other related things! Don't forget to like and follow us to receive updates. Expand your network and subsequently, your horizons with NEXUS: The Public Board. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/theofficialnexus/ for more details and updates!

LSP welcomes the new Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL), Dr Michael Tanangkingsing (National Taipei University of Technology)!

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