Sep 2026· Educational Role of Language Journal· Vol 2026-4, pp. 45-49· 0 citations
Abstract
The singular they in English has been the subject of debate in discussions of gender-fair language. However, Global Englishes have no problems in breaking away from linguistic norms maintained by native speakers of English, such as the case of the Philippines. As the national language, Filipino can be described to be gender neutral—supplemented by its pre-colonial treatment of non-heteronormative people—compared to English, a language uses masculine and feminine pronouns to refer to persons. Since colonial independence, English has evolved into a distinct variety whose defining characteristics have been influenced by Filipino. From this, a possibility of integrating a historically indigenous perspective on gender opens up an opportunity to accept gender-fair language in English. The genderlessness of Filipino places Filipino English speakers in a position to accept gender-fair English into everyday use, both positive directions to decolonization and gender mainstreaming in the country.
Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization...
In recent years, so-called "gender-neutral language" has become a point of discursive contention in the public sphere, especially in cyberspace. Far from being restricted to a strictly linguistic issue, this debate mobilizes political, ideological, and symbolic disputes related to the inclusion, visibility, and recogni...
In contemporary linguistics, phraseological and proverbial units are increasingly investigated from comparative, contrastive, and linguocultural perspectives. As culturally marked linguistic units, proverbs and proverbial phraseological expressions reflect the worldview, traditions, values, social experience, and histo...
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