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To introduce the papers from the 22nd conference the Professional culture of the specialist of the future they are considered in a broader context of cultural and academic developments. Multilingualism presents a much larger set of questions and challenges than just those of acquiring mastery of many languages. To the extent that the fabric of social life and especially the urban environment is multilingual, everyone inhabits it, regardless of their own knowledge of languages. Discussions within the Philosophy of Technology dramatize this situation if one acknowledges that devices and techniques add further layers of language to an already complex multilingual environment. This dramatic situation is at the same time challenge and opportunity for multilingual learning. This introduction thus provides a conceptual overview of a space that is inhabited by many university students and teachers, asking what they can and must do to gain or regain certain near-extinct species.
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The journal Technology and Language is dedicated to these various aspects. A recent special issue complements this volume specifically [1].
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From this point of view, English as a shared medium of communication does not signify supremacy of one language over others: German, Russian, Chinese, Indian English are no less different from American English than is British or Australian English. On this account, English is a set of communicative tools that should be judged by the effectiveness of their deployment rather than by fluency in any one local idiom.
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Nordmann, A., Bylieva, D. (2023). Introduction: Technologies in a Multilingual Environment. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) Technologies in a Multilingual Environment. PCSF 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26783-3_1
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