This chapter is concerned with interpersonal meaning. Using three primary texts, the children’s book used in the previous chapter, a text on mental health during the COVID pandemic and President Duterte’s speech on government regulations during the lockdown, it first introduces the different kinds of moves (Statement, Question and Command) which Filipino enacts to give information, to ask for information or to call on someone to do something. It then turns to a discussion of feeling—more specifically feelings having to do with expressing emotion, judging people’s character and appreciating the value of things. This is followed by a discussion of the ways in which Filipino uses personal pronouns to address readers and listeners. Using this discussion of Filipino interpersonal resources, the chapter explores issues of access in relation to the kind of Filipino used in the children’s picture book, the more formal Filipino of the Psychological Association’s mental health advice and the ‘populist’ Taglish of then President Duterte’s explanation of his government’s legislation at the beginning of the pandemic (which legislation was originally formulated in administrative English). Exploring interpersonal resources allows for an examination of how language is implicated in opening up or closing down access to meanings by specific social groups.

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Interpersonal Meaning: Managing Social Relations

  • J. R. Martin,
  • Priscilla Angela T. Cruz

摘要

This chapter is concerned with interpersonal meaning. Using three primary texts, the children’s book used in the previous chapter, a text on mental health during the COVID pandemic and President Duterte’s speech on government regulations during the lockdown, it first introduces the different kinds of moves (Statement, Question and Command) which Filipino enacts to give information, to ask for information or to call on someone to do something. It then turns to a discussion of feeling—more specifically feelings having to do with expressing emotion, judging people’s character and appreciating the value of things. This is followed by a discussion of the ways in which Filipino uses personal pronouns to address readers and listeners. Using this discussion of Filipino interpersonal resources, the chapter explores issues of access in relation to the kind of Filipino used in the children’s picture book, the more formal Filipino of the Psychological Association’s mental health advice and the ‘populist’ Taglish of then President Duterte’s explanation of his government’s legislation at the beginning of the pandemic (which legislation was originally formulated in administrative English). Exploring interpersonal resources allows for an examination of how language is implicated in opening up or closing down access to meanings by specific social groups.