[Sigiii-l] Plaza -Multilinguism

[Michel J. Menou]

while reminding of the damages that result from national language-centric
information seeking behavior, it might be right to mention that the phenomenon
is linked to other deep social and political patterns that promote isolationism
not only among nations or linguistic groups but also disciplines, schools and
other ivory towers.

Michel


Friday, September 19, 2003, 8:17:48 AM, you wrote:

DBJjsaz> To add to your thoughts, Sheila. The reverse is also true viz. that
DBJjsaz> valuable research may be published in languages other than English, that
DBJjsaz> if not translated to English, go 'unnoticed' and worse 'disregarded' in
DBJjsaz> the/an scientific community. This reminds me of a Spanish joke which
DBJjsaz> goes "What does one call someone who speaks many languages? Answer: A
DBJjsaz> polyglot. What does one call someone who speaks only one language?
DBJjsaz> Answer: An Englishman(!)"

DBJjsaz> Regards,

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DBJjsaz> Lecturer in Socio-Informatics 
DBJjsaz> Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making,  Information Science,

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