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

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 84
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.) :; 11 maps
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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