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The Dominance of English as a Language of Science
Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
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The Dominance of English as a Language of Science
Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
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Table of contents
- Editor’s Preface
- I. Overall Perspectives and General Models
- English – the Accidental Language of Science?
- When Does Knowledge Have a National Language? Language Policy-Making for Science and Technology
- English and the Language of Science: On the Unity of Language and the Plurality of Languages
- English in the Social Sciences
- The Dominance of English at European Universities: Switzerland and Sweden Compared
- The Expansion of English as a Language of Science and Communication: East and Southeast Asia
- II. Countries with a History of English-Language Dominance
- Speaking of Science: The Use by Australian University Science Staff of Language Skills
- The Penetration of English as Language of Science and Technology into the Israeli Linguistic Repertoire: A Preliminary Enquiry
- Aspects of Scholarly Language Use in Malaysia: Switching Codes in Formal Settings
- English in Science Communication in Hong Kong: Educational Research Output
- English as the Medium of Instruction for Science and its Effects on the Languages of the Philippines
- III. Countries with a History of Foreign Languages for Science Other than, or in Addition to, English
- The Impact of English as a Language of Science in Finland and its Role for the Transition to Network Society
- The Foreign Language Competence of Hungarian Scholars: Ten Years Later
- Swedish, English, French or German – the Language Situation at Swedish Universities
- IV. Countries with an Own International Language of Science
- The Languages of Science in France: Public Debate and Language Policies
- English in Linguistic Research in Belgium
- English as a Future Language of Teaching at German Universities? A Question of Difficult Consequences, Posed by the Decline of German as a Language of Science
- English as a Language of Instruction at Austrian Universities
- The Presence of English at Swiss Universities
- English as a Language of Science in Russia
- English in Brazil with an Outlook on its Function as a Language of Science
- English as a Language of Science in Japan. From Corpus Planning to Status Planning
- Subject Index