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English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work
- Source :
- Media, Culture & Society. 43:171-179
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- This essay discusses the impact of defining English as the lingua franca in academia, taking it as an additional barrier to achieving more equitable participation and a diversity of perspectives in scientific publications in the field of communication studies. Two aspects are particularly problematised. The first is the characterisation of a so-called research that travels, contrasting the ideal model of a strategic definition on what materials should be published on which platform with a scoring and evaluation system that prevents or limits intelligence in these choices. The second aspect is the definition of an acceptable level of eloquence for international circulation, in which the domestication of language leads to an epistemological domination. The debate is illustrated with a series of data regarding the (in)visibility of Latin American scientific production in international academic publications. Such barriers are, finally, presented as mechanisms of power that feed the so-called status of #CommunicationSoWhiteAndRich. The reflection suggests that the search for scientific rigour should not be confused with the rigidity of forms, valuing the construction of solidarity networks that contribute to the decolonisation of scientific thought.
- Subjects :
- Latin Americans
Sociology and Political Science
business.industry
Communication
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Media studies
050801 communication & media studies
Lingua franca
0508 media and communications
Work (electrical)
Publishing
Political science
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
business
computer
computer.programming_language
Diversity (politics)
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14603675 and 01634437
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Media, Culture & Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........59bbb1a8237494cda447454e8cd7a138