Editorializing in L2: The Case of Philippine English
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1 Editorializing as a discursive practice has received some attention in the linguistic literature. One study that looked at newspaper editorials was Reynolds (1993), which investigated the speech acts performed in three languages, namely, American English, Egyptian Arabic, and Egyptian English. Using Searle’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study found pragmatic features unique to each language as indicated by the frequency of use in each language of representatives, declarations, commissives, expressives, and directives. In 1997, Dayag replicated the study in his attempt to characterize Philippine English (henceforth, PE) as one of the Englishes belonging to Braj Kachru’s (1985) Outer Circle, which groups varieties of English used in countries which were former colonies of Great Britain and the USA and where English is basically a second language. Among other things, findings of that study included the following:
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