The number of people using English for international communication is increasing on an unprecedented scale and the spread of English shows no signs of stopping. There is a growing body of research on the phenomenon of international English, yet international English is defined variously in the literature and what is included in these definitions differs considerably. This review seeks to examin...

To be well-informed computer scientists, do we need to follow the Russian, Chinese, or Romanian computing literature? Can we say our field is truly international when we publish most of our results in English? Must a global community rely on a common tongue—a lingua franca—to support its activities? I’d never thought about Romanian computing literature before I stumbled upon it at the Library o...