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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4462 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 9 of 22 18 September 2013 at 1:42am | IP Logged | ||
The India's example proves the contrary. English is the language of education, science, business, but it's not the language of art and culture, the percentage of movies shot in English is < 1 %, all you get are movies in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Marathi... English is used informally only if there is no common Indian language people communicating can understand. English-medium schools may be popular but no Indian speaks with their partner or children in English. Sociolinguistically: H (acrolect): English M (mesolect): Hindi, local language (in Tamil Nadu, English is preferred to Hindi) L (basilect): local language (Tamil in Tamil Nadu, Malayalam in Kerala, Hindi in the Hindi belt, Punjabi in Pujab, Marathi in Maharashtra...) Edited by Medulin on 18 September 2013 at 1:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 6815 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 10 of 22 18 September 2013 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I work in life sciences and the overwhelming majority of the literature in the field is published in English. The journals in my area with the highest impact factors are in English, no contest.
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4047 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 22 18 September 2013 at 9:34am | IP Logged | ||
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German is the lingua franca of linguistic studies.
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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4416 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 12 of 22 18 September 2013 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
It's not necessarily stupidity. Maybe some Czech citizens simply expect that if they enrol for a university course in their own country, materials will be available in the national language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4327 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 13 of 22 19 September 2013 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | ||
I was the admins officer for an international doctoral program here in Berlin. Basically if any international academic program has English as it's base. We didn't get that many non-German students, but those that we did get were even split between native English speakers and others. I completely understand wanting to teach university courses in the native language, what is difficult is that it also then forces local hiring practices, which means that non-english speaking universities can't compete for the best academics globally. UK/US universities are full of the best German, French etc researchers; unfortunately language barriers stop this this being a symmetrical situation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4327 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 14 of 22 19 September 2013 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Really are the top linguistics journals published in English or German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4462 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 15 of 22 19 September 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Top journals are indeed published in English-mostly,
but some medical books are not readily translated into English, especially those written by Austrian and Swiss psychiatrists. I haven't been able to find the English translation of Viktor Frankl's Ärztliche Seelsorge. Grundlagen der Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse 2. Auflage, so I had to buy it in German. Edited by Medulin on 19 September 2013 at 7:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5350 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 16 of 22 19 September 2013 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of the older international articles in the field of Second Language Studies have an abstract in French and German at the beginning (e.g. Selinker's paper on Interlanguage, 1972). However most of what I read now is just published in English.
When I studied philosophy and theology for my first degree, things were quite different. Most of the papers for theology were originally published in German (e.g. Boltzmann, Schleiermacher) and occasionally Danish (e.g Kierkegaard), whilst many philosophy papers were originally either in French (e.g. Descartes, Derrida) or German (e.g. Frege, Kant) due to the huge wealth of literature from these countries. This is not to mention all the translations of Ancient Greek (e.g. Plato, Thales) and Latin (e.g Cicero, Heraclitus). I think the real question for me is not which languages papers are published in generally, as we have lots of contributions from recent and modern antiquity (and Latin used to be the academic lingua franca anyway right up until the 18th century), but how much new research is originally published in languages other than English in the 21st century ? Edited by Teango on 19 September 2013 at 7:55pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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