Resumen

DESPAGNE BROXNER, Colette Ilse  y  SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Elizabeth. Linguistic ideologies in a Mexican research center. Sinéctica [online]. 2021, n.56, e1168.  Epub 06-Mayo-2021. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2021)0056-004.

This critical case study aims to analyze the linguistic ideologies of researchers working at a Mexican research center in social sciences and humanities, and whether these ideologies influence their academic work. To triangulate the collected data of this qualitative research, we used questionnaires, interviews and official documents to increase the reliability of the results. Findings show that, in terms of academic production, English monolingualism has been established at a global level and Spanish monolingualism at a local level, which clearly impacts on the beliefs and attitudes of the participants. Participants perceive English as a bridge, a lingua franca, an international language and as the only language which would allow their research to achieve global impact. We therefore want to make a call on the scientific community to adopt a more multilingual approach in the field of academic production in higher education, which could possibly help maintain Mexico’s linguistic diversity.

Palabras llave : linguistic ideologies; language ecology; Mexico.