Cross-Cultural Gender-Based Investigation of Filipino and Chinese Facebook Users’ Disagreement Strategies by Joan C. Ravago, John Arvin V. De Roxas, Joel M. Torres, Daisy O. Casipit, Mercedita M. Reyes

“…Finally, diverse linguistic elements indicated disagreement, as Filipinos utilized modal verbs, whereas Chinese participants employed discourse markers and softening language. …”
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The Development and Intellectualisation of African Languages Revisited. by Ndoleriire, Oswald Kyamulesire

“…Thereafter, the case of intellectualising languages in Asia reveals a situation where the exercise was quite successful in the case of Malay in Indonesia and Malaysia but less successful with Tagalog converting into Filipino in the Philippines. …”
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Vote for Me! The Language of Persuasion Used by Philippine Presidentiables by Theresa Liquigan Eustaquio

“…This research presents a discourse analysis of the persuasion techniques in speeches of the ten Filipino presidentiables during the 2022 national elections in the Philippines. …”
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Ecocritical review of the nature essays of university students: a translation and metaphor study by Alican Pandapatan

“…The collected metaphors were translated into English from Filipino. Descriptive method was used. In the study, the majority of the students have the sense of landscape metaphor. …”
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Nutrition and diet in the general U.S. Asian American population: A scoping review protocol. by Sze Wan Chan, Gregory Laynor, Shahmir H Ali, Stella S Yi

“…The current body of literature on diet and food consumption of Asian Americans mainly focuses on the health of Filipino and East Asian Americans, or those with pre-existing non-communicable diseases.…”
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Development of the cultural tailoring score (CTS): a scoring instrument to assess cultural tailoring of health messaging by Claudia Parvanta, Kayleigh Murray, Samantha Boddupalli, Natalie Erasme, Rheese McNab, Vijay Prajapati, Arabel Severe, Aura Reyes, Richard Harner, Rhonda Holliday

“…It is based on research demonstrating the importance of: (1) Levels of engagement of the intended audience in the production, (2) use of understandable and culturally meaningful language, incorporation of (3) surface cultural cues and (4) deeper cultural constructs, (5) presence of a narrative to bind the information and cultural elements into a relatable story, and (6) factors associated with concrete psychological construal level (“now,” “here,” “you”).Methods We document a trial of the cultural tailoring score conducted by graduate students identifying as Filipino, Haitian, or Hispanic/Latinx reviewing 17 ads promoting COVID-19 vaccine that had been pretested during the pandemic for perceived effectiveness with convenience samples of these same ethnic groups.Results We achieved a combined Spearman’s Rank Correlation rho of 0.45 between the cultural tailoring score and perceived effectiveness ranking of all 17 ads (individual cultural groupings range from Spearman’s rho 0.45 to 0.90), suggesting that cultural components were moderately to strongly associated with perceived effectiveness. …”
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