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- Title
Jesuit Linguistic Battles, ca. 1898-1932 Language, Power, and the Filipino Soul.
- Authors
DE CASTRO, ANTONIO FRANCISCO B.
- Abstract
This article deals with the question of language, which exercised both American and Spanish Jesuits in the early decades of the American colonial regime in the Philippines. It brings to light the historical conditions and circumstances surrounding this question and rehearses the reasons given by key Jesuits for either shifting to English or maintaining Spanish in their institutions. Taking off from an essay of Fr. John N. Schumacher, S.J., this article seeks to reframe the controversy over language within the problematic of Filipino identity, arguing that marginalized in this debate between English and Spanish is the question of local languages.
- Subjects
PHILIPPINES; FOREIGN language education &; religion; JESUITS; PHILIPPINE national character; ENGLISH language education; SPANISH language education; CHRISTIAN missions; COLONIAL education
- Publication
Philippine Studies, 2010, Vol 58, Issue 1/2, p111
- ISSN
0031-7837
- Publication type
Article