Vanderplank, Robert

I found much to agree with in Professor Greenstein’s paper. She illustrates very well the current ambiguities in terminology, the tensions and paradoxes between the technological and the human, between the monolingual convenience of English and the life-enhancing diversity of plurilingualism, between the old world of books, libraries and paper, and the new world of instant access to databases and journals with the convenience of cutting and pasting, between the awareness and understanding of other cultures gained by travel, residence and acquaintance and the easy availability of e-mail, chat rooms, and other sites for cultural and linguistic exchange between individuals and groups at a distance from one another.