Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rclp20 Download by: [12.174.139.122] Date: 15 March 2017, At: 03:54 Current Issues in Language Planning ISSN: 1466-4208 (Print) 1747-7506 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rclp20 Why English? Confronting the hydra Peter I. De Costa To cite this article: Peter I. De Costa (2017): Why English? Confronting the hydra, Current Issues in Language Planning, DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2017.1301136 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2017.1301136 Published online: 15 Mar 2017. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data