Plurilingual Practices in Scientific Production
Negotiating Languages, Identities and Prestige
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https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n47.16756Keywords:
multilingualism, literacy, autoethnography, science, writingAbstract
In this paper I propose, from a narrative approach to research, an autoethnographic exploration focusing on the plurilingual practices that mark the constant learning of academic literacies. I try, at the same time, to foreground those experiences and conditions that shaped and continue shaping me as a writer, trying to highlight the linguistic but also geographical, research, epistemological and disciplinary paths that come into tension when enacting those practices related to doing and writing science. Rather than providing answers, the aim of this paper is to try out some answers and continue to generate questions that help us to make visible and revalue those interstitial spaces that, when reconfigured and transited in a certain way, can help to challenge monolithic and prescriptive conceptions of languages and sciences.
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