This paper explores how the authors to the papers in this issue understand how communication takes place when interlocutors use different named languages or use different semiotic resources to make meaning. The paper looks at the many ways in which this question is answered, since multilingual interaction takes place at different societal levels,…

There is an ever-increasing trend in the world today to adopt English as the language of instruction in higher education. The increase is in part due to the views that such adoption constitutes the key to competitiveness in a globalized higher education market. Thus, a growing number of universities in non-English-speaking countries switch to…