Bilingual publication of academic journals: motivations and practicalities

Morley, Greg; Kerans, Mary Ellen

doi:10.1016/b978-1-84334-666-1.50008-4

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“…Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America) and in English. Non-English written papers should present some accurate referential information in English in the form of titles, extended abstracts and keywords (Morley & Kerans, 2013;Salager-Meyer, 2009). This is what Iranian and Chinese journals are increasingly doing (Habibzadeh, 2006a;Shen et al, 2010).…”

Section: Internationalization: the Role Of English In The Upgrading Omentioning

confidence: 99%

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Writing and publishing in peripheral scholarly journals: How to enhance the global influence of multilingual scholars?

Salager‐Meyer

2014

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

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Section: Internationalization: the Role Of English In The Upgrading Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…both in the scholars' L1 and in English. This is all the more important because high-quality translation requires careful editing of the original language version in terms of clarity, consistency, and lack of ambiguity (Morley & Kerans, 2013).…”

Section: Educational Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing and publishing in peripheral scholarly journals: How to enhance the global influence of multilingual scholars?

Salager‐Meyer

2014

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

116

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“…Giving authors the freedom to choose between English and local languages is not effective as a way of changing the status of local languages in academic publishing because the majority of authors choose to submit articles in English out of pragmatic concerns, such as more international readers and greater chances of citation and promotion (Bocanegra-Valle, 2014;Fuentes & Gómez Soler, 2017). Therefore, some journals have resorted to a policy of bilingual publishing, although the number of journals practising such a policy is small because articles need to be translated and published in both English and local languages, which is both labour-intensive and costly (Morley & Kerans, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research on the translation-mediated production of bilingual journals is even rarer. Morley and Kerans (2013) shared their understanding of the reasons for and practices of bilingual publishing based on their experiences of translating medical journals. Another published account is that of Bartholomäus et al (2015), who surveyed the editors of eight medical journals and the authors and translators of one of the journals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

2022

LANS-TTS

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Local-language journals that include topics of regional interest and are published by regional institutions in the non-Anglophone world (peripheral journals, also called Global South journals in Development Studies) are underrepresented in major indexes and are struggling due to a lack of contributors, reviewers and financial support. Some have resorted to translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy to maintain their identity and increase their visibility and impact. To date, this strategy has received scant attention in the literature. The current research aims to explore why peripheral journals resort to the strategy and the ways in which it is put into practice. The overviews, instructions to authors and bilingually presented articles of 68 social science and humanities journals were reviewed through content analysis. The results suggest that the journals implement the strategy out of pragmatic and ideological concerns. It seems that the current use of translation as a development strategy is still an improvized mechanism instead of a standard model. Although many follow a similar pattern in some respects, there is a lack of management in the translation process and no agreed norms on cost coverage, translation strategy and presentation formats. This points to the necessity of further effort being expended to optimize the strategy in the future.

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“…Translation of RAAs is typically carried out for two reasons: to increase the international visibility of local research, or to foster multilingualism in an increasingly monolingual world (cf. Morley and Kerans 2013). As a genre, RAAs perform a key function in academic communication, since they are, as Lorés-Sanz (2016, 133) points out, "a navigating tool, an essential time-saving and informationmanaging device".…”

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Reshaping Authorial Presence in Translations of Research Article Abstracts

Pahor

Smodiš

Peterlin

2021

ELOPE

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In multilingual settings, the abstract is the only part of the research article that is regularly translated. Although very brief, abstracts play an important role in academic communication, as they provide immediate access to research findings. Contrastive research has revealed considerable cross-linguistic differences in the rhetorical patterns of abstracts. The present paper focuses on how this variation is bridged in translation, by addressing an important rhetorical dimension of academic discourse, authorial presence. Specifically, it examines how authorial presence is reshaped in translated abstracts. An analysis of a small corpus of 150 Slovene research article abstracts from five disciplines and their English translations reveals several interesting types of recurring translators’ interventions, most notably the tendency to replace personal authorial references with impersonal structures. Data collected in interviews with four experienced translators of academic texts is used to shed light on potential reasons for interventions with authorial presence in translation.

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Bilingual publication of academic journals: motivations and practicalities

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Writing and publishing in peripheral scholarly journals: How to enhance the global influence of multilingual scholars?

Writing and publishing in peripheral scholarly journals: How to enhance the global influence of multilingual scholars?

Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

Reshaping Authorial Presence in Translations of Research Article Abstracts

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