With 1.5 billion of the Earth’s population claiming English proficiency, today there are far more non-native speakers of English in the world than native speakers.
In The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, Rosemary Salomone charts English’s meteoric rise as the 21st century’s lingua franca, the pushback from countries interested in curbing its spread, the consequences for other languages and identities around the globe, and the pitfalls of English’s dominance for native English speakers.