Date: 18-May-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Linguistic Inequality in Scientific Communication Today: Carli, Ammon (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Linguistic Inequality in Scientific Communication Today
Subtitle: What can future applied linguistics do to mitigate disadvantages for
non-anglophones?. AILA Review, Volume 20
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Augusto Carli
Editor: Ulrich Ammon
Paperback: ISBN: 9027239924 9789027239921 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 87.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9027239924 9789027239921 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 131.00
Abstract:
This volume is dedicated to the implications and consequences of the almost exclusive use of English as the language of scientific communication. While until the end of the Seventies of the last century, scientific communication was characterized by a high degree of shared multilingualism, a drastic change towards English monolingualism has taken place from the beginning of the Eighties, at first in the so-called hard sciences (natural sciences, medicine, technology, and mathematics) - under the threat of the 'bibliometric measurement' via the impact factor - and gradually also, though still to a lesser extent, in the social sciences and humanities. The choice of English is usually seen as "natural" or at least "unavoidable", without considering that it could involve problems and be inequitable. This volume of AILA Review presents and discusses this phenomenon and its social implications with the support of a number of internationally known authors who outline its scientific relevance and put forward various options of language policy.
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