Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 454 pp. + index
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Editorial
2024 Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics Asia-Pacific Language Variation 10:1, pp. 67–105 | Article
Within sociolinguistic research on English variation, Asian and Pacific Islander North Americans (APINAs) are frequently described as an “understudied population” due to the relative lack of published studies that analyze these speakers or communities. This structured literature review… read more
2024 Advancing Sino-Philippine linguistics and sociolinguistics using the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp): A multilingual, POS-tagged, and audio-textual databank International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:2, pp. 213–257 | Article
This paper introduces the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp), a public 375,000-word collection of raw and transcribed recordings of Lannang languages spoken in metropolitan Manila, which have been annotated with part-of-speech tags and linked to 40 types of sociolinguistic metadata. It begins by providing… read more
2023 Broadening horizons in the diachronic and sociolinguistic study of Philippine English with the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE) English World-Wide 44:3, pp. 403–434 | Article
This paper presents the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE): a dataset of 27 million tweets amounting to 135 million words collected from 29 cities across the Philippines. It provides an overview of the dataset, and then shows how it can be employed to examine Philippine English… read more
2023 Variability in clusters and continuums: The sociolinguistic situation of the Manila Lannangs in the 2010s Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:1, pp. 83–124 | Article
This study explores the sociolinguistic situation of a metropolitan Manila Lannang community based on data gathered between 2017 and 2020. A survey was administered to 117 individuals to probe into various dimensions of self-reported language use (e.g., proficiency, confidence) and attitudes (e. read more
2020 Two Englishes diverged in the Philippines? A substratist account of Manila Chinese English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:1, pp. 125–159 | Article
Although World Englishes (WE) scholarship is concerned with the study of English varieties in different social contexts, there is a tendency to treat postcolonial ones as homogenous regional phenomena (e.g., Philippine English). Few researchers have discussed variation and social differentiation… read more
2020 Vowel system or vowel systems? Variation in the monophthongs of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien in Manila Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2, pp. 253–292 | Article
The Manila variety of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien (PHH-M) or Lánnang-uè is a contact language used by the metropolitan Manila Chinese Filipinos; it is primarily comprised of Hokkien, Tagalog/Filipino, and English elements. Approaching PHH-M as a mixed language, we investigate linguistically and… read more
2017 Language contact in the Philippines: The history and ecology from a Chinese Filipino perspective Language Ecology 1:2, pp. 185–212 | Article
This article narrates the sociohistory of the Philippines through the lens of a Sinitic minority group – the Chinese Filipinos. It provides a systematic account of the history, language policies, and educational policies in six major eras, beginning from the precolonial period until the Fifth… read more