Overview
- Undertakes a discourse analysis of Filipino texts from the Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective
- Provides an analysis of Filipino texts to draw from for practical purposes in Philippine bilingual education programs
- Offers Philippine researchers a toolkit for discourse analysis of texts written in Filipino and Taglish
Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (TMAKHLFLS)
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This book explores Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, from the perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA)—informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is designed to encourage researchers to study Filipino texts—both spoken and written—and to unpack them in a way that clarifies their function in Philippine society. With this goal in mind, the book introduces a number of discourse analysis tools and shows how to apply them to a range of Filipino texts—including a children's picture book story, some mental health advice about coping with COVID-19, President Duterte's speech about the Philippine government's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a comment piece from a student newspaper about problems with online learning modules produced by the Department of Education, and a reflective text about growing up in Davao. This is the first book to draw on a range of functional linguistic tools to analyse Filipino discourse in order to provide deeper insights into the role of language in bilingual education, the linguistic enactment of power, and the importance of thinking across languages when analysing texts. Key issues addressed include the complementarity of CDA and PDA, SFL's model of social context (as register and genre), analysing bilingual texts and bilingual education. The book fosters appliable linguistics as a dialectic of theory, description, and practice—supporting Filipino discourse analysts as they engage with the challenge of giving people access to a range of tools they can use productively to mean and thereby more successfully pursue their social goals. As such, it provides a model for researchers of other languages of how to encourage the analysis of meaning in texts within and beyond the clause. It is relevant to scholars across the spectrum of linguistics, particularly those working in Systemic Functional Linguistics.
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J R Martin is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 (acting as the head of its Linguistics Section from 2010–2012) and was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003. In April 2014, Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, appointing Professor Martin as a director.
Priscilla Angela T Cruz is an associate professor at the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Her research focuses on discourse analysis, appliable linguistics, educational linguistics, language variation, and systemic functional linguistics. She has also worked on mother-tongue-based multilingual education.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analyzing Filipino Discourse
Book Subtitle: Meaning in Text
Authors: J. R. Martin, Priscilla Angela T. Cruz
Series Title: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3141-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: De La Salle University Publishing House 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-96-3140-7Published: 04 May 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-96-3143-8Due: 18 May 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-981-96-3141-4Published: 03 May 2025
Series ISSN: 2198-9869
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9877
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 203
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Asian Languages, Asian Culture, Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences, general