Symposium on Philippine English
Oxford University Press (OUP), the Department of English and Applied Linguistics (DEAL) of De La Salle University (DLSU) and the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) present the Philippine English Symposium, to be held on Saturday, September 14 on the 5th Floor of the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall of De La Salle University on Taft Avenue, Manila.
The symposium, whose theme is “Philippine English: Trends, issues and challenges,” will bring together various language stakeholders to tackle linguistic and socio-cultural issues concerning the use of English in the Philippines.
The free symposium will be attended by around 500 members of the Filipino English-speaking community, who will come to Manila from all over the Philippines. Participants will also be invited to contribute to the new Pinoy English Community Dictionary, a project sponsored by Oxford University Press (OUP) that aims ultimately to create a web-based, crowd-sourced dictionary of Philippine English.
Co-organizing the symposium is Dr. Danica Salazar, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English Language Lexicography of the University of Oxford. Her research involves helping widen the OED’s coverage of Philippine words, and she is also OUP’s expert consultant on the Pinoy English Community Dictionary project. “This project is a recognition of Philippine English as a variety of the language in its own right,” says Dr. Salazar. “The public’s enthusiastic response to the symposium is a sign of increasing openness towards adopting our own local standards when using English.”
Aside from Drs. Dita and Salazar, symposium speakers include Dr. Ariane Borlongan and Dr. Danilo Dayag of DLSU, Dr. Aileen Salonga of the University of the Philippines-Diliman and Dr. Alejandro Bernardo from the University of Santo Tomas. The symposium will conclude with a round-table discussion featuring all symposium speakers, along with Ms. Jessica Zafra, columnist of InterAksyon.com, Mr. Reynaldo Binuya, English Coordinator for Basic Education of La Consolacion College-Caloocan, Ms. Kriza Kamille Santos, English Department Head of Divine Mercy College Foundation, and Freddie Sale, BSE-English student at DLSU. These last four panelists represent non-linguists who use Philippine English in their daily professional practice and thus play an important role in its development.
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September 14th, 2013 at 10:15
That is a good project. Hope the dictionary eventually becomes available as an app.
Hope we Pinoys can come up with a Strunk & White. We can call it Locsin & Zafra.
Memory lane: I was in college when you shot an episode of POV at the DLSU Conservatory. I cut class to personally ask you to sign my copy of Chicken Pox for the Soul. It was worth it.