T. Ruanni F. Tupas
List of John Benjamins publications for which T. Ruanni F. Tupas plays a role.
2020 Experts and the geopolitics of knowledge production Language, Culture and Society 2:1, pp. 116–125 | Short note
2020 English-dominated Chinatown: A quantitative investigation of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Singapore Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region, Berg, Marinus van den (ed.), pp. 273–289 | Article
The current study reports a quantitative investigation of the linguistic landscape (LL) in Singapore’s Chinatown. The database of the study comprises a total of 831 instances of signs in the form of photographs that were collected in Chinatown. The study finds that English dominates the LL while… read more
2018 Semiotic engineering in Singapore: National Courtesy Campaign posters in aid of nation-building Journal of Language and Politics 17:1, pp. 46–69 | Article
National campaigns are an extension of governance that aim to subliminally (re)align a society to a country’s nation-building objectives or ideals. They are carefully curated government projects that are heavily invested in the dissemination and reinforcement of nation-building ideologies. This… read more
2009 Language as a problem of development: Ideological debates and comprehensive education in the Philippines Multilingual, Globalizing Asia: Implications for policy and education, Lim, Lisa and Ee-Ling Low (eds.), pp. 23–35 | Article
Fixation on language in language policy debates is not a natural given. In fact, it has to be re-examined. This paper argues that another effective way to look at language policy is to suspend talk on language, and instead first engage with social development issues where people are at the heart… read more
2003 History, language planners, and strategies of forgetting: The problem of consciousness in the Philippines Language Problems and Language Planning 27:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
Many language planners and language scholars in the Philippines suffer from imperial amnesia — the inability or refusal to confront the complexity of history from which emerged various discourses on language and education in the country. Work on language planning is ideologically and politically… read more