Pronoun choice of Filipino urban households helpers

• Main Author: Parina, Jose Cristina M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Filipino language—Pronoun; Household employees—Philippines—Language; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/1493
• Institution: De La Salle University

The paper studied how language, specifically the use of second person pronominals exhibits different social dimensions when used by a seemingly marginalized group in the Philippine context – the group of household helpers (hhps). The reason for the study is because, language is believed to be the si...