Roger M. Thompson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Roger M. Thompson is involved.

Title

Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives

Roger M. Thompson

English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.

Articles

Thompson, Roger M. 1991 Copula Deletion in Spanish Foreigner Talk: Using Questionnaires as a Research Tool Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 89–106 | Article

Questionnaires were used to discover how twenty-eight students from Peru, Colombia, and Guatemala use the Spanish copulas ser and estar in foreigner talk. Ser usually was deleted but not estar when used as a locative or when discussing health. A multiple choice situational questionnaire was found… read more

Thompson, Roger M. 1982 Language Planning in Frontier America: The Case of the Deseret Alphabet Language Problems and Language Planning 6:1, pp. 45–62 | Article

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Sprachplanung an der amerikanischen Westgrenze: der Fall des Deseret-Alphabets Die Forscher der Sprachplanung in den Entwicklungslandern übersehen gewöhnlich den zwanzig Jahre langen Versuch, die englische Sprache zu modernisieren, der zur Zeit der westlichen Expansion Amerikas… read more