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

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

Thisarticle 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 in...

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Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-10232024-08-07T03:42:03Z Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality Benitez, Christian Jil Thisarticle 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 in a given instance when it refers coincidentally to something else. Etymologically, panahon is related to nahon and taon, which embody the opportune and the material, suggesting that panahon is articulable through the encounter of things (bagay), whose thinghood/appropriateness is knowable only by chance (pagkakataon). Kasaysayan (history) is a bagay that is always implicated in the panahon it attemptsto render.KEYWORDS: PANAHON • FILIPINO TIME • CLOSE READING • METONYMY • PHILOLOGY 2019-11-29T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol67/iss3/7 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1023/viewcontent/Panahon_20and_20Bagay_20_5Bvol._2067_20no._203_E2_80_934_20_282019_29_20457_E2_80_9388_5D.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Thisarticle 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 in a given instance when it refers coincidentally to something else. Etymologically, panahon is related to nahon and taon, which embody the opportune and the material, suggesting that panahon is articulable through the encounter of things (bagay), whose thinghood/appropriateness is knowable only by chance (pagkakataon). Kasaysayan (history) is a bagay that is always implicated in the panahon it attemptsto render.KEYWORDS: PANAHON • FILIPINO TIME • CLOSE READING • METONYMY • PHILOLOGY
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author Benitez, Christian Jil
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Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
author_facet Benitez, Christian Jil
author_sort Benitez, Christian Jil
title Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
title_short Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
title_full Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
title_fullStr Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
title_full_unstemmed Panahon and Bagay: Metonymy and the Close Reading of Dictionaries to Understand Filipino Temporality
title_sort panahon and bagay: metonymy and the close reading of dictionaries to understand filipino temporality
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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