Boondocks

A Mini Concept Paper

Did you know?

•Did you know that asa, salita, balita,

karma, mukha, guro, dalita, hari, are
borrowed from the Sanskrit/Indian
language?
Can you enumerate words that
have enriched our Philippine
languages by foreign language
borrowings?
• From Spanish – ventana, sinturon, kutsilyo,
mesa, primero, segundo, tercero, singko,
derecho, canta, obra, premio, etc.
• Indonesian/Malay – gunting, payong, anak, halo
halo, lima,’ and salamat.
• American – kontraktwal, empleyado, burger,
barbecue, keyk, klase, riserts, etc. (We simply
Tagalized the spelling!)
a. Did you know that on June 26, 2015, forty-one Filipino
words and expressions were added to the Oxford English
Dictionary?
• Examples: barong, bahala na, barkada, barangay, KKB, kikay,
suki, pulutan, etc.
b. How about Filipino words that have been Americanized?

Examples: cooties (from kuto or head lice), carabao (from

kalabaw), machin (matsing), calamondin (kalamunding, a
citrus tree), and boondocks (bundok)
Definitions
Purposes:
1. To clarify meaning of words, or to correct misinterpretations, or
misuse of a term.
2. To stipulate the meaning of a term by limiting, extending, or
redirecting the sense in which a term is usually understood; to use a
term, borrowed from another field of knowledge, in a special way.
Ex: .“Window dressing”
1. used to make a shop window more attractive to buyers.
2. stipulatively used in a false banking report to deceptively project an
impression of economic stability or financial growth
Techniques
1. Formal – follows a pattern or equation:
term + genus + differentia (differentiating characteristics)
Ex. A robot is a machine that looks like a human being and performs complex
acts of a human being (Webster)

2. By synonym- using a word or phrase that shares a meaning with the term
being defined. Ex: Hashish – marijuana.

3. By origin or semantic history – Ex. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit “to join”

4. By Illustration – Ex: Known for their shedding their leaves in the fall,
deciduous trees include oaks, maples, and beeches.
5. By function – Ex: A thermometer measures
temperature change.
6. By analysis (Breaking down wholes into parts,
aspects into levels, and a process into steps) Ex: The
republican form of government has three branches: the
executive, the legislative, and the judiciary.
7. By likeness or similarity – Ex: Brighter than
100million suns, quasars stand like beacons on the
shore of the universe…
8. By analogy or metaphor –Ex: The germs and bacteria or antigens are
like a gang of villains invading our body, attacking our unseen
defenders, the layers of macrophages, cytokines, and lymphocytes,

9. By contrast- use of opposites

Ex: Unlike those of gas, the particles of plasma are electrically charged.

10. By negation – stating what a term is not.

Ex: Wild rice, an American delicacy, is not rice at all but the seed of a
tall aquatic grass.
Main Idea and Supporting Ideas

Thesis - Boondocks refers to a remote

rural isolated or even wild area.
Main Idea and Supporting Ideas

Supporting detail 1- Borrowed from the Tagalog

word, bundok, meaning mountain, the word now
refers to any rough country, with the letter-s
added to make it refer to locations.
Main Idea and Supporting Ideas
Supporting detail 2 -Earlier used by the U.S
servicemen during the world war to refer to the
remote swampy areas used for training, it later
referred to distant, rural areas.
Main Idea and Supporting Ideas

Supporting detail 3 - Boondockers, a derivative,

are shoes suitable for rough terrain.
Main Idea and Supporting Ideas

Supporting detail 4- Boonies became the slang

equivalent of boondocks.
The short text is a mini concept paper that consists of a core
definition clarifying the meaning of the term, boondocks, and
the expansion of this core definition. Study the chart below:
Learning Activity: How Well Do you Know Our
Language?
Each dyad (or partnership) guesses the foreign
language from which the word or expression was
borrowed: they should write I for Indian
(Sanskrit), IM for Indonesian-Malaysian, C for
Chinese (Mandarin), J for Japanese, and S for
Spanish.