Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University. He is author of The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (2009), Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context (2012) and From Language to Creative Writing (with Bill Greenwell, 2013); he is also editor of English in Japan in the Era of Globalization (2011) and English in the World Today: History, Diversity, Change (with Joan Swann, 2012).