Philippine English variation in police blotters

Abstract

Philippine English variation in lexicon is visible in the language of police blotters. In the process of police blotter writing, only the English written document is used as the basis of investigation, as an attachment to court documents and as a news source. To determine the Philippine English variation in the lexicon in the English transcriptions of Cebuano oral complaints, Y. Kachru and Nelson's perspective on creativity and innovation is used to analyse the police blotters. The Philippine English variation that appears in such blotters shows how Philippine English is not a monolithic construct, but is affected by the sociolinguistic realities of the Philippines.