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Publication details [#64499]
Osborne, Dana. 2018. “Ay, nosebleed!”: Negotiating the place of English in contemporary Philippine linguistic life. Language & Communication 58 : 118–133.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
‘Nosebleed’ is a metapragmatic semiotic stance-marking tool employed to treat the role of English in daily interactions in the Philippines. Culturally-enregistered modes of interaction maintain linguistic diversity in the Philippines. ‘Nosebleed’ taps into noticeable local notions of the commensurability of language-, body- and person-types. Popular discourses and local uses are opposed to point out the semiotically open-ended ravel of ‘nosebleed’ in the modern Philippine linguistic scene.