Series: Elements in World Englishes

This Element introduces PrInDT (Prediction and Interpretation in Decision Trees), a statistical approach for modelling relationships between extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It is based on decision trees and controls their size in a way that they are easy and straightforward to interpret. Furthermore, PrInDT optimises their accuracy so that they best fit the data and can be...

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...