Philip Seargeant

Biographic Data

ID76919
NAMEPhilip Seargeant
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMESeargeant
SIGNATURESEARGEANT P
AFFILIATIONSThe Open University
ORCID0000-0001-8973-9036
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS116
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Modelling world Englishes for the twenty‐first century

    Open AccessPhilip Seargeant, Lin PanARTICLEWorld Englishes2026References: 1

    It is almost 40 years since Braj Kachru developed his Three Circles Model for world Englishes as a framework for exploring the ways in which English exists around the world. This article examines how the model holds up in light both of advances in applied linguistics and shifts in geopolitics over the past four decades and, in response to these changes, considers how we may wish to refine or reconfigure aspects of this model for the twenty‐first …

  • Decolonizing Language and Education

    Open AccessLin Pan, Philip SeargeantCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2025

    The focus on “decolonization” in academia has prompted a critical re‐evaluation of knowledge production and its reliance on Euro‐centric and colonial lenses. This chapter examines how the ideas that constitute decolonization impact on the discipline of applied linguistics and necessitate a rethinking of some of the underlying tenets of the discipline and a re‐examination of its theoretical approaches. The discourse on language decolonization emer…

  • Exploring Preservice Teachers' Translanguaging Practices and Perceptions in Teacher Training: A Global Englishes Perspective

    Open AccessHaixiang Li, Lin Pan et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly2025Cited by: 2References: 38

    This study explores how preservice English teachers in China perceive and leverage their Chinese and English linguistic repertoires in ELT methodology training, and how a reflective understanding of their use of these repertoires can contribute to their development as teachers. To understand how their practices and conceptualizations of language and teaching are in accord with an orientation toward or away from principles of Global Englishes Lang…

  • English as a global language in China: Teachers' and students' views in Chinese schools

    Open AccessLin Pan, Philip SeargeantARTICLEEnglish Today2024

    While the first decade of the 21 st century witnessed an unprecedented level of popularity in English across China, the last ten years have seen a fall in the status of English and a meteoric rise of the importance of the Chinese language and culture in the education system (Feng & Adamson, 2019; Pan & Wang, 2024). The changed status of English was exemplified in the 2017 English curriculum standards (2017 ECS) for senior high school students (ag…

  • Obituary: Jan Blommaert (1961–2021)

    Philip SeargeantARTICLEApplied Linguistics Review2023

    In a series of later publications, Jan Blommaert, who has died at the age of 59, explicitly discussed the ways in which his thinking was the product of a lifetime of engaging with other scholars. In Dialogues with Ethnography and Durkheim and the Internet, both published in 2018 (2018a, 2018b), he wrote of the intellectual forebears and contemporaries who had provided him with the foundational ideas, the stimulation and opportunity for dialogue f…

  • China English and Chinese culture: A student and teacher perspective

    Open AccessLin Pan, Philip SeargeantARTICLEEnglish Today2023

    In his short list of predictions for the future of English, written in 2006, David Graddol wrote that ‘Asia may determine the future of global English’ (2006: 15). India and China especially, he suggested, were likely to be the major influences on how the concept of English as a global language would develop. As Asian economies grew, so did their political status, potentially offering a different model for the global ecology of languages. Nearly …

  • The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

    Open AccessStefania Maria Maci, Massimiliano Demata et al.BOOKThe Routledge Handbook of…2023

    Gender violence has lately turned a major topic in political, social and institutional discourses and has hence permeated the agenda of newsrooms. Media coverage of violence against women (VAW) often relies on newsworthiness, which frames a view of VAW that overrepresents femicide vis-à-vis other forms of non-physical violence. This routinisation and distortion of audience perceptions can legitimate and perpetuate particular anti-feminist ideolog…

  • Linguistic ideologies and the fabric of everyday life

    Open AccessPhilip SeargeantARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2023References: 5

  • Context design and critical language/media awareness: Implications for a social digital literacies education

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip SeargeantARTICLELinguistics and Education2021

  • Successful” migration, (English) language skills and global inequality: The case of Bangladeshi migrants to the Middle East

    Open AccessElizabeth J Erling, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEMultilingua2019References: 20

    Migration has become a vital element of the Bangladeshi economy, which has led to an increasing focus on providing Bangladeshis with the skills needed on the international labour market. English is often cited as one of these skills, and previous research has shown that a primary reason why Bangladeshis wish to learn English is due to its perceived value for pursuing work abroad (Erling, Elizabeth J., Philip Seargeant, Mike Solly, Qumrul H Chowdh…

  • Social media and the future of open debate: A user-oriented approach to Facebook’s filter bubble conundrum

    Open AccessPhilip Seargeant, Caroline TaggARTICLEDiscourse Context & Media2018Cited by: 3References: 11

  • Constructing Conviviality in Online Interaction

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Social Media and Intradiverse Networks

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Giving and Taking Offence: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Afterword: Beyond Facebook

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • The Impact of Intradiversity on Online Offence

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Online Communication as Context Design

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Creating Facebook: A Study of Online Conflict and Conviviality

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.CHAPTERTaking Offence on Social Media2017

  • Taking Offence on Social Media

    Open AccessCaroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant et al.BOOKTaking Offence on Social Media2017Cited by: 17

  • The symbolism of English on the Brexit battleground

    Open AccessPhilip SeargeantARTICLEWorld Englishes2017Cited by: 1

  • Analysing perceptions of English in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessPhilip Seargeant, Elizabeth J Erling et al.ARTICLEWorld Englishes2017Cited by: 1References: 14

    Drawing on research analysing perceptions of English in rural Bangladesh, the paper explores the ideological and practical issues involved in the promotion of English in this context, with respect to the language's former and current associations with colonial and imperialist agendas, and the politico-cultural situation of present-day Bangladeshi society. The analysis - which is underpinned by a blending of world Englishes and postcolonial theory…

  • The Language of Social Media

    Open AccessPhilip Seargeant, Caroline TaggBOOKLanguage of Social Media2014

    This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an i

  • English in rural Bangladesh: How is language education perceived as a resource for development in rural communities

    Open AccessElizabeth J Erling, Philip Seargeant et al.ARTICLEEnglish Today2014

    English's elevated status within a global economy of languages means that English-language education is increasingly promoted in international development initiatives in countries such as Bangladesh. This is partly due to a growing conviction that English is able to play an important role in helping people participate in global economic markets from which they have previously been excluded (Seargeant & Erling, 2011). Despite the strong associatio…

  • Is English a threat to Chinese language and culture: The ‘threat’ of English in China might be balanced by the promotion of Chinese language and culture

    Open AccessLin Pan, Philip SeargeantARTICLEEnglish Today2012

    In an article published in English Today in 2005, Niu and Woolf contend that: EFL is a modern day Trojan horse filled with EFL teachers/soldiers or missionaries, armed with English words rather than bullets, intent upon re-colonizing the world to remake it in the image of Western democracy. China has brought the Trojan Horse within its gates and the army of EFL teachers is hard at work Westernizing China

  • Language choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions

    Open AccessPhilip Seargeant, Caroline Tagg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2012Cited by: 21References: 24

    This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, along with the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data …