Publishing as an English non dominant language author. First results from a survey of support offered by mathematics education journals

Rudolf Strässer (1, 2)

1 Justus Liebig University Giessen
2 ACU - Australian Catholic University

With English as the language of the vast majority of highly regarded international journals in Didactics of Mathematics (research in mathematics education), authors who do not have English as their dominant language face the challenge of producing a text in a target language different from their working language (source language). The paper presents first results of a survey on how a number of highly recognised international journals in Didactics of Mathematics handle this issue and identifies some of the related challenges. Some challenges are linked to specific customs and norms related to the generation and credentialing of new knowledge within communities of research practice. Others are connected to semantic and pragmatic characteristics of transforming thoughts and texts from a source to a target language. The paper also provides insight into types of support offered by major journals to English non-dominant language authors.

Mots clés: Translation; heteroglossia; centripetal versus centrifugal forces; journal survey

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Education

Rudolf Strässer. Publishing as an English non dominant language author. First results from a survey of support offered by mathematics education journals. Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht University, Feb 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02435399⟩