Frontmatter -- Series preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: The socio-cultural scenario -- Debates and discourses on English as an academic and research language -- Towards an epistemological monoculture: Mechanisms of epistemicide in European research publication -- Citing outside the community? An investigation of the language of bibliography in top journals -- Resources for publishing in English as a foreign language: Strategies, peers and techniques -- Language policy in web-mediated scientific knowledge dissemination: A case study of risk communication across genres and languages -- Part II: The discourse community scenario -- On cross-cultural variation in the use of conjuncts in research articles by Czech and native speakers of English: Can conjuncts contribute to the interactive and dialogic character of academic texts? -- Spanish authors dealing with hedging or the challenges of scholarly publication in English L2 -- Academic writing in English in comparison: Degree adverbs, connecting adverbials, and contrastive/concessive markers in the ChemCorpus and comparable data-bases -- Cross-cultural variation in citation practices: A comparative analysis of citations in Czech English-medium and international English-medium linguistics journals -- Peer reviewers' recommendations for language improvement in research writing -- Part III: The language policy scenario. English as a lingua franca in linguistics? -- English as a lingua franca in linguistics? A case study of German linguists' language use in publications -- Academic English as "nobody's land": The research and publication practices of Swedish academics -- Addressing the challenge of publishing internationally in a non-Anglophone academic context: Romania - a case in point -- The implementation of English-medium instruction in Croatian higher education: Attitudes, expectations and concerns -- Teaching English as a Lingua Franca in a multilingual environment: The evaluation of native and non-native teachers of English by Polish university students -- Teasing out the tensions between English monolingualism vs. plurilingualism in European academic and research settings -- Index