Dana Osborne

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dana Osborne is involved.

Articles

Osborne, Dana 2021 The making of “deep language” in the Philippines Language, Culture and Society 3:1, pp. 58–81 | Article

This analysis interrogates one of the most highly recognizable, but little understood metalinguistic descriptors of language in the contemporary Philippine linguistic scene: the concept of “deep language.” Here, “deep language” is explored as a complex, polysemous term generally used to describe… read more

Osborne, Dana 2019 Chapter 10. Me, myself, and ako: Locating the self in Taglish tweets The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 235–252 | Chapter

This analysis explores the complex existential relationship that multilingual speakers in the Philippines forge between sign (language) and object (ego) when referring to themselves in Taglish using both the first-person pronouns, I (English) and ako (Tagalog) in single tweets. Bringing together… read more