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Tupas, T. Ruanni F. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2003
Examines why language planners in the Philippines argue the way they do concerning critical language issues in the country. Suggests discursive "strategies of forgetting" are employed across complex structures of relations shaped by decades of colonialization, Filipino elite collaboration, and current neocolonial and global conditions.…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Power Structure