Die Sprache von Forschung und Lehre

International academic work teaches cultural tolerance, intellectual openness and curiosity in a particular way. It is undeniable that academia benefits from multilingual intercultural exchange. Nevertheless, as a lingua franca, English has dominated almost all strategically important areas of social thinking and behaviour for quite some time. Even in academia, other languages have disappeared from numerous disciplines. This unbalanced shift towards the English language may not only offer important opportunities, but could also pose considerable risks, among which are the limited acquisition of knowledge, reduced academic exchange, curtailed knowledge sharing in society and the promotion of purely market-oriented research interests. Against this background, this anthology addresses the question of whether and to what extent the growing dominance of business concepts in academia is related to the standardisation of academic expression and communication.
With contributions by
Pavo Barisic, Thomas Corsten, Hermann H. Dieter, Peter L. W. Finke, Siegfried Gehrmann, Hans Goebl, Christoph Koch, Thomas Loew, Ralph Mocikat, Gerhard Müller, Richard Münch, Olga Rösch, Eva Schlotheuber, Cornelia Schu, Johannes Singhammer, Ulrich Steinbach, Winfried Thielmann, Günter-Ulrich Tolkiehn, Jutta von Campenhausen.