In Europe and throughout the
world,competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved
by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible
growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes
indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice
for Europe and for the World starts off arguing that the
dissemination of competence in a common lingua franca is a process
to be welcomed and accelerated, most fundamentally because it
provides the struggle for greater justice in Europe and in the
world with an essential weapon: a cheap medium of communication and
of mobilization.