Monolingualism and creativity: Scientific discourse and linguistic diversity in human and social sciences

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  • Dominique Maingueneau Paris-Sorbonne University (France).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.4552

Keywords:

scientific journals, monolingualism, human and social sciences, academic English

Abstract

Whether or not monolingualism –?academic English, in practice?– is favourable for the production of knowledge in human and social sciences is now called into question. In order to further their careers, researchers seek to publicise their work by publishing in the most prestigious, best-known international journals. But we must not ignore the limits set by the operation of these journals on the production of innovative knowledge to challenge our intellectual routines. We can support the idea that creativity in social and human sciences benefits more from preserving a plurality of scientific production spaces than from a single homogeneous space, which usually tends to fall into complacency.

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Author Biography

Dominique Maingueneau, Paris-Sorbonne University (France).

Full Professor of Language Science of the Paris-Sorbonne University (France). For decades, his research has focused on French linguistics and discourse analysis. Some of his most recent books are Discours et analyse du discours (Armand Colin, 2014) and, together with J. Angermuller and R. Wodak, The discourse studies reader. Main trends in theory and analysis (John Benjamins, 2014).

References

Perec, G. (1991). Cantatix sopranica L. et autres écrits scientifiques. Paris: Seuil.

Sokal, A. (1996). Transgressing the boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity. Social Text, 46/47, 217–252. doi: 10.2307/466856

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Published

2016-04-15

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Maingueneau, D. (2016). Monolingualism and creativity: Scientific discourse and linguistic diversity in human and social sciences. Metode Science Studies Journal, (6), 115–119. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.6.4552
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