Scientific Communication: Call for Multiculture
This paper aims to focus the determination of cognition, knowledge transfer and language. The scholarly community functions exclusively in English, uses Anglophone communicative and cognitive patterns. Use of English as a lingua franca is assumed to be beneficial for internationalization and progress of academic communication. The point of division, focused in the article, is that the reduction on English monoculture in the scientific communication means a reduction of epistemological essentials, different in various thought styles and cultures.
Keywords: scientific text, scientific communication, thought style, intercultural specifics
Scientific Communication: Call for Multiculture This paper aims to focus the determination of cognition, knowledge transfer and language. The scholarly community functions exclusively in English, uses Anglophone communicative and cognitive patterns. Use of English as a lingua franca is assumed to be beneficial for internationalization and progress of academic communication. The point of division, focused in the article, is that the reduction on English monoculture in the scientific communication means a reduction of epistemological essentials, different in various thought styles and cultures
Primary Language | German |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | March 31, 2015 |
Submission Date | March 31, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 2 Issue: 32 |