Domain dichotomy and sociolinguistic inequality in Philippine museum spaces

Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape

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ID21235804
AuthorsNicko Enrique L Manalastas (0000-0001-7778-7225, University of the Philippines Diliman, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume10
Issue3
Pages223-252
Publication date2024-09-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Landscape An international journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2214-9953 • E-ISSN: 2214-9961
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ll.23055.man
OpenAlexW4390728162
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited38

The prevailing notion on the scholastic domains of English and Filipino is that the former is used for science, whereas the latter is reserved for the social sciences. Despite its questionable veracity, this domain dichotomy has nevertheless been adopted in Philippine education, particularly in the 1974 Bilingual Education Policy ( Sibayan, 1978 ; Gonzalez, 1990 ). Using Scollon and Scollon’s (2003) concept of emplacement and Kress and van Leeuwen’s (1996) information value as theoretical points of departure and Tupas’ (2008, 2015a ) ‘Unequal Englishes’ paradigm as an analytical framework, this paper investigates whether this dichotomy has permeated into the Linguistic Landscapes of two national museums in Manila. It finds that there is a strong tendency for the natural history museum to privilege English in bilingual signs and the anthropological museum to privilege Filipino, thereby suggesting that this split has already been reified in language practices outside the realm of education policy making and politics

Epistemology · Inequality · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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