Cultural Impacts of English as the Scientific Lingua Franca: Using Language for Specific Purposes Corpora to Examine Science Communication (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics)

This volume explores how cultural influences between the West and East shape how science is communicated.It traces how the use of language has played an essential role in the dissemination of science and the development of ideas about science from the ancient worlds of the Middle East and China, followed by events in the Greek and Roman eras and then activities in Europe.It poses the questions: Western science? Eastern science? How do we view the world? How does culture influence language and thus affect how knowledge is communicated?As people around the world today become more intricately involved with each other, there is a growing need to acknowledge the need for more diversity, equity and inclusion of concepts from cultural backgrounds other than the predominant Anglophone view promoted by the extensive use of English as the language of science.The authors book show that fluency in English does not guarantee success in learning or teaching in English, because the cultural backgroun