Introduction: Disciplines, Perspectives, Debates, and Overview

Abstract

O ne cannot travel far these days without being struck by the pervasiveness of English as the world’s second language. Signage in the Seoul subway is in English as well as Korean. Along Venice’s Grand Canal the vaporetto stops are announced in Italian and English. Announcements in airports everywhere and on planes are routinely in English, and, less obvious to passengers, English is used exclusively for communication between cockpits and control towers. At international meetings English is often the default language or even the only language. In many fields of knowledge publication is primarily in English. Other languages continue to be vital locally, nationally, and regionally, but for the first time in history a single language has become the global lingua franca. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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