Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Panahon; bagay; Philippine time; metonymy; philology; dictionaries; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/8; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/743685
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article demonstrates how the close reading of words used in lexicographic definitions of the word panahon point to a Filipino understanding of temporality. These definitions resort to metonymy to concretize the abstract. Although different meanings cloud its meaning, panahon is understandable i...