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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 84Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (478 p.) : 11 mapsContent type:
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  • 9783110166477
  • 9783110869484
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  • 428 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
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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

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