I need to know why Afrikaans speaking researchers publish in English
Writing in language mother is very important, but the politic of this scientific site forbids that; especially when it relates with Arabic language. I have writes in Arabic language, and I have edited numerous articles and books in this language. But on this site, when I had ask only one question in Arabic, it was deleted. I don't know why?!!
I have written my PhD in Afrikaans and found it quite difficult since I had to create a lot of new words.
That is true, but what about contributing to the literature base produced by own mother tongue? Do you write some papers in mother tongue as well?
I think producing scientific writing in mother tongue is a very important issue. It's vital for language survival in long term and for the development of the prestige of the language. However, it has become almost compulsory to write in English in today's scientific world. I think this is a issue that has to be addressed.
Well, on my paper on visual metaphor, I admit I wrote it in Spanish to present at an annual meeting of the Latinamerican Neuropsychology Society in Montevideo, Uruguay back in the early '90's or late 80's. It was published in the joural of the society NEUROPSICOLOGIA LATINA, AS "La metáfora visual cognoscitiva y el copiador-explorador" or something like that. I can find it exactly if anyone would possibly be interested. I may have translated the thing into English, but I don't remember where it might be, or at least without some churning up of the sands of my memory.
Writing in language mother is very important, but the politic of this scientific site forbids that; especially when it relates with Arabic language. I have writes in Arabic language, and I have edited numerous articles and books in this language. But on this site, when I had ask only one question in Arabic, it was deleted. I don't know why?!!
That is quite interesting, since i believe we should be able to conduct research in our mother tongues.
I think it's all about citations. English language journals are the most cited and citations mean better research funding. Also here, money makes the world goes round.
It depands on target group and the goal of the article.
Perfect research you want to publish in English, because then it is cited and world-wide known.
Professional expert article summarizing theory and offering new perspective you publish in mother language and share the paradigm with colleagues from your country.
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