id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
iberica-401	Ferguson, Gibson	The global spread of English, scientific communication and ESP: questions of equity, access and domain loss	2007-01-02	32	.pdf	application/pdf	13890	601	49	More contested, however, are the effects of this dominance: with two sets of concerns particularly salient: (i) the potential detrimental impact on other languages –even standardised national languages, which are at risk, so it is argued, of being relegated to a lesser role in an incipient global diglossia and of losing domains; and (ii) the communicative inequality produced by the dominance of English between, in particular, native-speaking scientists/academics and non-native scientists, the latter experiencing relative disadvantage, it is sometimes claimed, when it comes to placing their work in high prestige international journals. Central to our discussion are two particular issues: the alleged threat to other languages posed by English and how, if at all, this can be managed; and second, questions of access, equity and inequality in academic publication in a world dominated by English.	cache/iberica-401.pdf	txt/iberica-401.txt