El campo de las ciencias y la educación superior entre el monopolio del inglés y el plurilingüismo: elementos para una política del lenguaje en América Latina

The field of science and higher education presents a strategic space that clearly reflects some of the problems which spring from the globalisation of English as today's only hyper-central language: from a model of limited plurilingualism based on German, English, and French in the beginning of the XXth century, the field has moved to an almost absolute predominance of English. Today we face a crucial dilemma with potentially irreversible consequences: we can either move from English hegemony to English monopoly which would exclude all other languages from science; or we can advance through a ...