Marlon James SALES Monash University The pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines in January 2015, which gathered the biggest crowd ever assembled for a Papal event in history, has put to fore the nexus between translation and religion in…
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Translation as a search for divine meanings: Fray Francisco Blancas de San José and his grammar of the Tagalog language
Tagged with: 17th century, missionary linguistics, Philippines, Tagalog, translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
The lost Tesoro del ydioma ylocano
Rebeca Fernández RodrÃguez Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro At the end of the 18th century, Russian Empress Catherine II wanted to compile an atlas of the world’s languages. She commissioned first the German Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) and then…
Tagged with: 18th century, lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
Posted in 18th century, Article, Lexicography, Philippines
Dr José Rizal and the making of a modern linguistic Messiah
Piers Kelly Australian National University Describing the preeminent Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as a linguist is a little like referring to Thomas Jefferson as a horticulturalist. The statement may be true, but the many other talents that Rizal…
Tagged with: Dr José Rizal, orthography, Philippines, Spanish, Tagalog
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Philippines, Phonology
Early writing and printing in the Philippines
Rebeca Ferndández RodrÃguez Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Printing and publishing began in the Philippines with the arrival of the Spanish in 1565. Encountering an enormous number of native languages, the Spaniards felt a pressing need to describe the…
Tagged with: 16th century, history, Philippines, printing, Spain, writing
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Article, History, Philippines
Posted in 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Article, History, Philippines
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 