A Tale of Language Ownership and Identity in a Multilingual Society: Revisiting Functional Nativeness

• Main Authors: Lising, Loy, Bautista, Maria Lourdes S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Functional nativeness ; Symbolic capital ; Multilingualism ; Language attitudes ; Language and identity
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol1/iss1/1; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1000/viewcontent/RA_1.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The American occupation of the Philippines in 1898 saw the official installation of English into the nation’s linguistic ecology. Over a century since and through many socioeconomic developments and national language policies, English continues to thrive as the official second language. Given its pr...