32.35, Books: The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge: Berthoud, Gajo

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:33:54
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge: Berthoud, Gajo

 


Title: The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission
of Scientific Knowledge 
Series Title: Multilingualism and Diversity Management 5  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/mdm.5 


Author: Anne-Claude Berthoud
Author: Laurent Gajo

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207470 Pages: 158 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for
society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the
world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is
created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the construction
and transmission of knowledge is based on a growing monolingualism, with
English as the "lingua academica" regarded as a condition of the universality
of scientific knowledge. However, this idea is based on the illusion that
languages are transparent and that the modes of communication are universal.

In this book, it is shown how multilingualism can open different perspectives
and improve the quality of knowledge by offering an antidote to the squeezing
out of different academic and scientific cultures. More precisely, it is shown
how multilingual approaches highlight the mediating role of language and, in
doing so, optimize conceptualization, communication and evaluation in science.

These findings are, for one thing, relevant to institutional language policies
and, for another, open new lines of research taking scientific practices
themselves as a field of investigation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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