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the scientific information explosion, the phenomenon is also explained by 
(a) the fear-ubiquity, world-wide, of English as the linqua franca of 
science,” and (b) the sheer size of the monolingual professional audience, 
or market, in North America. Factor (b) has an important role to play in 
the economics of publishing, in North America and throughout the rest of 
the world, as we shall see a little later. 
We can thus conclude that the trend depicted in Tables | and 2, 
which we cast in terms of ‘significant growth’, has characterized the 
utterance of scientific journals in the North American region during the 
1970s. ; 
There has been growth also, during the same decade, in two other 
world regions. The figures for Asia and the Pacific and the Latin 
American-Caribbean zone are shown in Tables 3 and 4. These regions are 
particularly interesting because they contain most of the so-called 'new 
Japans, i.e. those nations significantly engaged in advancing industriali- 
zation. Ig Asia, these countries are the Republic of Korea, Singapore, 
Taiwan, and perhaps Malaysia; in Latin America, they are Brazil and 
Mexico. India, the remaining 'new Japan, is found on the table dealing 
with the Middle &ast-South Asia (see Table 5). The growth of industry 
based on scientific technology in these areas has brought in its train a rise 
in the number of specialized journals circulated, although the least 
affected region remains Africa (Table 6). 
The growth of science and the expansion of industrial technology 
during the |980s and 1990s, can be expected to continue, despite the 
severe economic setbacks of the past few years. This growth should take 
place chiefly in North America, Europe, Latin America and the Carib- 
bean, and Asia and the Pacific basin. The main reasons for this broadening 
of science and technology are (a) global demographic rise (although there 
is a much lower rate of population.growth in the industrialized countries), 
tb! the spread of literacy and education, (c) a growing awareness bv 
policy-makers, notably in the world zone represented 5v Table 3, of the 
national importance of scientific and technical knowledge, and 'd? an 
increasing flow of almost all categories of information across national 
borders, despite the interrnittent recidivism of certain States seeking to 
limit or seal the perviousness of their frontiers. 
2 
Primary sources of scientific information continue to be t^: disci- 
plinary journals, published on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis. In 
the free-market industrialized countries, these are most frequently pub- 
lished by independent, commercial publishers, less frequently by pro- 
fessional societies or associations; in the centrally planned industrialized 
economies, these publications are the product of the national ac-demies 
For some of the linguistic frustrations of the scientific researcher not 
working in English, see J.J. Daetwyler, La Langue Francaise dans l'Exer- 
cice des Professions Scientifiques monograph), published by the author in 
December 1981, at Wabernstrasse 34, 3007 Bern, Switzerland. See also 
Language of Love ‘editorial), Nature, Vol.298, 26 August 1982, and Robert 
Walgate, Language of Science, op. cit., p.784. 
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2 ! 
-'" Taiwan, no longer a Member State of Unesco, submits no data to the 
Organization. 
Richardson ^