The Dominance of English as a Language of Science : : Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities / / ed. by Ulrich Ammon.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ammon, Ulrich,; Baldauf, Richard B.,; Chan, Dennis W. K.,; Cillia, Rudolf de,; Dingwall, Silvia,; Dürmüller, Urs,; Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise,; Haarmann, Harald,; Holman, Eugene,; Inoue, Fumio,; Jacobson, Rodolfo,; Jernudd, Björn Η.,; Kaplan, Robert B.,; Kryuchkova, Tatjana,; László, Mónika,; Martel, Angéline,; McCornell, Grant D.,; Medgyes, Péter,; Murray, Heather,; Nical, Iluminado,; Pagano, Adriana Silvina,; Paiva, Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e,; Schweiger, Teresa,; Secombe, Margaret,; Shohamy, Elana,; Siguan, Miguel,; Smolicz, Jerzy,; Spolsky, Bernard,; Swaan, Abram de,; Truchot, Claude,; Willemyns, Roland,; Wu, William Y.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ammon, Ulrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 84
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.) :; 11 maps

Table of Contents

I-IV -- 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