Publications

Publication details [#55018]

Calaresu, Emilia. 2011. The declining status of Italian as a language of scientific communication and the issue of diglossia in scientific communities. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011 (210) : 93–108.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diglossia | language dominance | language status | language use | scientific language

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study argues that, notwithstanding serious differences in the progress pace of their status loss, national languages such as Italian appear to witness major language displacements for the benefit of English in science, higher education and other élite areas.