Linguistic inequality and its effects on participation in scientific discourse and on global knowledge accumulation – With a closer look at the problems of the second-rank language communities

Applied Linguistics Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-355

  Ammon, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dominance of English; knowledge flow; non anglophones; scientific communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894666513     PISSN: 18686303     EISSN: 18686311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2012-0016     Document Type: Article

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