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American History Tellers
This book, authored by the guest historian, discussed the weaponization of language in the Philippines, contrasting the Spanish resistance to teaching Spanish with the American adoption of English as a lingua franca for colonial purposes.
author of several books on Filipino history, language, and culture, including Motherless Tongues, The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation.
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This book, authored by the guest historian, discussed the weaponization of language in the Philippines, contrasting the Spanish resistance to teaching Spanish with the American adoption of English as a lingua franca for colonial purposes.
author of several books on Filipino history, language, and culture, including Motherless Tongues, The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation.
In your book, Motherless Tongues, one of the things you write about is the perhaps weaponization of language.