This special issue brings together leading scholars in the field of English for specific purposes (ESP) for an innovative and insightful discussion of the interface between ESP, as a leading subject area in applied and educational linguistics, and world Englishes (WE), as a sub-discipline of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The contributions to this special issue explore, in various ways, the synergies between these two approaches for linguistic research and pedagogy.

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世界英语和特殊用途英语特刊（ESP）

本期特刊汇集了特定用途英语 (ESP) 领域的领先学者，对作为应用和教育语言学领先学科领域的 ESP 与世界英语 (WE) 之间的接口进行了创新和有见地的讨论，作为语言学和社会语言学的分支学科。对本期特刊的贡献以各种方式探索了这两种语言研究和教育学方法之间的协同作用。