Institutionally Speaking: Speech Departments and the Making of a Philippine Eloquent Modernity

• Main Author: Serquina, Oscar Tantoco, Jr.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: speech/speech communication; Philippine academic departments; institutional histories; the University of the Philippines; Silliman University; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; Rhetoric and Composition; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss2/4; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1013/viewcontent/3_Serquina_Institutionally_20Speaking_Akda_201_282_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This essay initiates a historiographical account of speech departments in the University of the Philippines (UP) and Silliman University. Founded in 1959 and 1965, respectively, these academic formations are the two existing bastions for the comprehensive and disciplinary study and practice of speec...