Julius C. Martinez

This Element proposes the concept of Philippine Englishes-in-Motion as an alternative approach to understanding Philippine Englishes. It situates this proposition within the concerns of mobility, labour migration, multilingualism, and transnationalism. Drawing on analyses of self-recorded conversations by 18 Filipino migrants in Japan, along with other empirical data, this Element illuminates the processes of linguistic selection, as Filipino migrants selectively draw...

This Element proposes the concept of Philippine Englishes-in-Motion as an alternative approach to understanding Philippine Englishes. It situates this proposition within the concerns of mobility, labour migration, multilingualism, and transnationalism. Drawing on analyses of self-recorded conversations by 18 Filipino migrants in Japan, along with other empirical data, this Element illuminates the processes of linguistic selection, as Filipino migrants selectively draw...