Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default LanguageIn Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that in the present English dominated world, millions of people including academics, lawyers, diplomats, and writers can become prisoners of English, unable to think outside English. In particular, social sciences and the humanities are now increasingly locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English. To most scholars in these fields, treating English as a default language seems a natural thing to