2ND HELSINKI INITIATIVE WEBINAR ON MULTILINGUALISM IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
LUCÍA CÉSPEDES, PHD
CIECS, CONICET-UNC

Implicit and explicit
linguistic policies forscholarly communicationin Latin America

Drawing inspiration from categories developed by
the current known as Latin American Thought onScience, Technology and Development, thispresentation seeks to analyze whether explicit
linguistic policies for scholarly communications exist
in Latin America. In such case, are they aligned withresearchers’ linguistic ideologies andrepresentations, and do they foster or hinder theregion’s intrinsic multilingualism?

Amilcar Herrera
Argentinian geologist and intellectual
Professor at Universidad de Buenos Airesand Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Political exiles: Universidad de Chile(1966-1971), University of Sussex
Science Policy Research Unit
(1976-1979), Universidade Estadual deCampinas (1979-1995)
One of the main referents of PLACTED(Latin American Thought on Science,
Technology and Development)Explicit scientific policy

Implicit scientific policy

Officially sanctioned bygovernments, agencies,
planning bodies, etc.

Not formally structured
nor institutionallyexpressedLaws, guidelines,development plans,declarations, etc.: acountry’s SCIENTIFICPOLICY“Goals oriented”

Organic manifestation ofa country’s national
project’s real demand for
Science and Technology“Business asusual”,“laissez-faire”

Explicit and implicit policies need not be contradictory,
but this is the case when national projects arethemselves contradictory, in transition or in crisis.
In “developed countries”, explicit policy is codified post
hoc. In “dependent countries”, it needs to be designed inorder to a) create a robust S&T sector, and b) encourage(and orient) its relations with other social actors

Linguistics

Scholarlycommunicationstudies

STSLPP (LanguagePolicy and Planning)

Public policy

S&T policy

Misalignment (national level)“The emphasis that nations place on international dissemination ofscientific knowledge in rewarding scientists could undermine theirstated focus on national development and solving national criticalproblems, a rationale stated in the Mexican policy documents. [...]
However, despite claiming nationalistic objectives, Turkish andMexican policies of promotion and remuneration give less value topublications in national languages or in national/regional journals.”(Englander & Uzuner-Smith, 2013, p.247)

Alignment (national level, Brazil)Internationalization as scientific /higher education policy: Ciência semFronteiras (2011-2016)
Languages for Academic Purposesas spin-off policy:Inglês sem Fronteiras
Idiomas sem Fronteiras
Finardi & Archanjo, 2018; Sarmento & Fontes, 2021;
Freire Junior & Panico, 2021)

Alignment (journal level)

Alignment (journal level)

Alignment (journal level)

Linguistics

Scholarly
communication
studies

LPP (LanguagePolicy and Planning)?
STS

Public policy

S&T policy

Rethinking
language policy
for multilingualism
in scholarly
communications

Languages as communicative,
meaning making, co created,common resources
Decolonial potential in thealignment of S&T + linguistic& editorial/publishing policies
Synergy towards scientificautonomy and development,
against dependency, against
domain loss, against
linguistic inequalities

thank you
merciobrigada
graciaslucia.cespedes@unc.edu.ar@lucy_ces