The world uses English as a lingua franca because it makes sense for millions of people (“The Downside of English’s Dominance,” Review, Nov. 27). My grandfather in India mandated the use of English in ...

A study highlights the need for a new approach to the teaching of English pronunciation given that English is now a lingua franca, with more non-native speakers in the world than native speakers. A ...

Carey, Ray (2014) Toward a methodology of chunking: applications and extensions of Linear Unit Grammar. Paper presented at ICAME 35 (Intl. Computer Archive of Modern & Medieval English), University of ...

Is there a certain triumphalism about English these days? The language is viewed as so pervasive, so essential, in our ever-more-connected world, that it can only continue to dominate. Not so fast, ...

France’s chattering classes would do well to keep The King Formerly Known as Knud in mind as they build yet another dyke around their language in a last-ditch attempt to prevent it being flooded by an ...

This article first appeared in The Conversation. English is widely acknowledged as the world's most successful language. It has developed over the 20th century into a global lingua franca, the most ...

SIR: It is inarguably a fact that whatever a vast majority of Africans and nations have now become is a result of their earlier encounter, and continuous interface with the people and nations of the ...

To capture the changes in English as they are taking place and to understand the processes involved, we need to document uses of English as it undergoes these transformations. Project SELF sets out to ...

English has squeezed out every other language in the competition to become the common tongue of Europe, an EU report confirmed yesterday. It found that English is the most popular foreign language in ...