Author： Guardiano Cristina Favilla M. Elena Calaresu Emilia
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN： 1570-5595|20|1|28-52
ISSN： 1461-0213
Source： AILA Review, Vol.20, Iss.1, 2008-01, pp. : 28-52
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Abstract
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 English as the language of science, and on the perception of non-Anglophone scholars on the reasons of the predominance of English in scientific literature and their disadvantages with respect to native speakers.
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