Need a Global Language? examines

the changing linguistic landscape of science and the contemporary undisputed and unrivaled status of English as the com-mon language of international communication. The book makes a timely contribution to the emerging literature on English as a (global) lingua franca (ELF), a debate that has been taking place mostly in the humanities and the social sciences rather than in the STEM (science, technol-ogy, engineering, and mathe-matics) subjects. In the latter, competence i