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

Edited by: Ulrich Ammon

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2001

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Volume 84 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Editor's Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
I. Overall Perspectives and General Models
English — the Accidental Language of Science Robert B. Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
When Does Knowledge Have a National Language? Language Policy-Making for Science and Technology Angéline Martel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
English and the Language of Science: On the Unity of Language and the Plurality of Languages Miguel Siguan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
English in the Social Sciences Abram de Swaan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
The Dominance of English at European Universities Switzerland and Sweden Compared Heather Murray and Silvia Dingwall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
The Expansion of English as a Language of Science and Communication: East and Southeast Asia Grant D. McCornell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
II. Countries with a History of English-Language Dominance
Speaking of Science: The Use by Australian University Science Staff of Language Skills Richard B. Baldauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
The Penetration of English as Language of Science and Technology into the Israeli Linguistic Repertoire: A Preliminary Enquiry Bernard Spolsky and Elana Shohamy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Aspects of Scholarly Language Use In Malaysia: Switching Codes in Formal Settings Rodolfo Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
English in Science Communication in Hong Kong: Educational Research Output William Y. Wu, Dennis W. K. Chan and Björn Η. Jernudd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
English as the Medium of Instruction for Science and its Effects on the Languages of the Philippines Jerzy Smolicz, Iluminado Nical and Margaret Secombe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
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 Harald Haarmann and Eugene Holman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
The Foreign Language Competence of Hungarian Scholars: Ten Years Later Péter Medgyes and Mónika László Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Swedish, English, French or German — the Language Situation at Swedish Universities Britt-Louise Gunnarsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
IV. Countries with an Own International Language of Science
The Languages of Science in France: Public Debate and Language Policies Claude Truchot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
English in Linguistic Research in Belgium Roland Willemyns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
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 Ulrich Ammon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
English as a Language of Instruction at Austrian Universities Rudolf de Cillia and Teresa Schweiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
The Presence of English at Swiss Universities Urs Dürmüller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
English as a Language of Science in Russia Tatjana Kryuchkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
English in Brazil with an Outlook on its Function as a Language of Science Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva and Adriana Silvina Pagano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
English as a Language of Science in Japan From Corpus Planning to Status Planning Fumio Inoue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471

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eBook published on:

July 11, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110869484

Hardcover published on:

May 3, 2001

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110166477

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Reprint 2011

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Front matter:

13

Main content:

478

Illustrations:

21

Tables:

68

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11 maps

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869484

eBook ISBN: 9783110869484

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110166477

Keywords for this book

Englisch; Wissenschaftssprache; Aufsatzsammlung

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