When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first moment I put my feet in the immigration hall at Miami International Airport.

THE RISE OF ENGLISH Global Politics and the Power of Language By Rosemary Salomone “Every time the question of language surfaces,” the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote, “in one way or ...

The scope of English in India includes Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, whose most recent books have been named as two of The New York Times’ ten books of the year, and the Amazon delivery man who ...

Sam Jaffe's article, "No Pardon for Poor English in Science" 1 should have stressed the reason that poor English in scientific papers is so counterproductive. Whether English is the scientists' second ...