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T1 English in the Geopolitics of Knowledge
A1 Mendieta, Eduardo
A1 Phillipson, Robert
A1 Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
K1 dominación lingüística
K1 enciclopedia
K1 violencia simbólica
K1 discurso académico
K1 geopolítica del conocimiento
AB The role of English in constituting and dominating the geopolitics of knowledge is ex-plored in three fields: scholarly writing in the USA, trends in the generation and marketingof encyclopedias, reference works and electronic databases of “global” reach and the selec-tion processes that influence knowledge production and serve to maintain hierarchies oflanguage; ongoing analysis of whether Nordic languages are being eclipsed by English, aswell as the nature of western academic discourse dominance for the vitality of other cul-tures and languages. These instances show how global scholarship is being constrainedthrough an English filter that amounts to epistemic symbolic violence. These examples arelinked to current pressures to quantify the utility of university “productivity,” and the needfor more proactive strategies to ensure the diversity of knowledge communities, which isnecessary for the continuation of humanity.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2006
FD 2006
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RD 06-may-2024