English in academic and professional contexts: Editorial

This special issue of Nordic Journal of English Studies explores a number of themes related to the spread of English as a global language in academic and professional domains. This spread is closely linked to global trends in technological development, population mobility, transnational business organization, and education, which is increasingly driven by market forces (e.g. Ek, Ideland, Jönsson and Malmberg in press) and neo-liberal ideologies (e.g. Block, Gray and Holborow 2012).