1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456529903321

Titolo

Philippine English [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and literary perspectives / / edited by Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista and Kingsley Bolton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], c2008

ISBN

988-220-726-X

1-282-70923-2

9786612709234

988-8052-63-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Asian Englishes today

Altri autori (Persone)

BautistaMaria Lourdes S

BoltonKingsley <1947->

Disciplina

427.9599

Soggetti

English language - Philippines

English language - Social aspects - Philippines

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Philippine English : linguistic and literary perspectives / Kingsley Bolton and Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista -- A favorable climate and soil : a transplanted language and literature / Andrew Gonzalez -- English in Philippine education : solution or problem? / Allan B.I. Bernardo -- English-language media in the Philippines : description and research / Danilo T. Dayag -- World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English / T. Ruanni F. Tupas -- 'When I was a child I spake as a child' : reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy / D.V.S. Manarpaac -- Taglish, or the phantom power of the lingua franca / Vicente L. Rafael -- Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines / Curtis D. McFarland -- A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English / Ma. Lourdes G. Tayao -- Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary / Kingsley Bolton and Susan Butler -- Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English / Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista -- English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations : issues,



opportunities, and research / Jane Lockwood, Gail Forey, and Helen Price -- Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English / Isabel Pefianco Martin -- Negotiating language : postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English / Lily Rost Tope -- 'This scene so fair' : Filipino English poetry, 1905-2005 / Gemino H. Abad -- The Philippine short story in English : an overview / Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo -- The Filipino novel in English / Caroline S. Hau -- Filipino diasporic literature / Alfred A. Yuson -- In conversation : Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English / Simeon  Dumdum, Timothy Mo, and Resil Mojares -- Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines / Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista.

Sommario/riassunto

An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996280987603316

Titolo

ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2012/Amd.4:2015(E) (Adoption of IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013) . Part 12 Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications : ISO/IEC/IEEE International Standard - Information technology -- Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -- Local and metropolitan area networks -- Specific requirements / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : IEEE, , 2015

ISBN

0-7381-9876-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, xxviii, 395 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

004.68

Soggetti

Local area networks (Computer networks)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this amendment is to improve the ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802.11(TM) wireless local areanetwork (WLAN) user experience by providing



significantly higher basic service set (BSS)throughput for existing WLAN application areas and to enable new market segments for operationbelow 6 GHz including distribution of multiple multimedia/data streams.