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Ammon, Ulrich – AILA Review, 2007
This volume is about the role of different languages in science and scientific communication, with the focus on the status and function of entire languages like English, Chinese, Russian, etc. and not on structural details of these languages--following the distinction between status and corpus in language planning. However, the latter, i.e. corpus…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Usage, Language Planning, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Guardiano, Christina; Favilla, M. Elena; Calaresu, Emilia – AILA Review, 2007
The progressive spread of English as the main language of international scientific communication has been interpreted in many different ways by several scholars. The paper presents a brief review of the scientific debate on such topics, focusing on the main stereotypes which have been created in order to provide explanations for the development of…
Descriptors: English, Scientific and Technical Information, Information Dissemination, Language Usage