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Can someone explain why the title and abstract is in 3 languages (English, French, Spanish), but the article just in English? Is this a new thing?

by 21 8y ago

rabboRubble 8y ago
I'm guessing it's an EU thing to make the article easily discoverable for 3 main EU languages (how the English language thing will work after Brexit, no idea. EU may still have English as an official language for cross border communication). Many academic people speak English well enough to read the article. I'm guessing from my own struggles while Googling stuff in a different language, that is a different art.
- Symbiote 8y ago
  English is an official language of Ireland and Malta, so it will retain that status. It's currently a procedural language of the EU, and is likely to retain that position as its so well understood in the North and East of Europe.
- Freak_NL 8y ago
  I don't think it's that; German would have been chosen instead of Spanish if that was the case.
  - rabboRubble 8y ago
    True. The strange thing is the site overall has other journal articles with the same English, French, Spanish abstract set up. May be a convention for that site. I'm guessing that the article itself isn't translated into those other languages due to cost. The site provides paid translation services.
- Bromskloss 8y ago
  What does the European Union have to do with this?
  - rabboRubble 8y ago
    The publishing company hosting the article is headquartered in London. I wondered if the location might have something to do with the languages found in the abstract. The languages are an odd selection. If they were going for penetration, why no Chinese or Hindi? I tried to find guidance on their website if the presented languages were mandatory but could not. Other journal articles had the same 3 languages in the abstract so it appeared to be a convention for that site. I did find translation services, for a cost which explains why the article was not translated into those languages. Edit: PS had an incredibly slow Sunday obviously :)
kaitai 8y ago
This journal is mainly "based" in the UK (look at the editorial board) and I think they include French & Spanish abstracts as a sort of historical courtesy to colleagues. Then the French & Spanish readers can figure out if it's worth the effort to read/translate the English. Many journals used to publish in several languages (or say they'll publish in English and French) and so require abstracts in all "supported" languages, but the language of international scholarship is increasingly English.

Can someone explain why the title and abstract is in 3 languages (English, French, Spanish), but the article just in English? Is this a new thing?

by 21 8y ago

Can someone explain why the title and abstract is in 3 languages (English, French, Spanish), but the article just in English? Is this a new thing?

rabboRubble 8y ago

I'm guessing it's an EU thing to make the article easily discoverable for 3 main EU languages (how the English language thing will work after Brexit, no idea. EU may still have English as an official language for cross border communication). Many academic people speak English well enough to read the article. I'm guessing from my own struggles while Googling stuff in a different language, that is a different art.

Symbiote 8y ago
English is an official language of Ireland and Malta, so it will retain that status. It's currently a procedural language of the EU, and is likely to retain that position as its so well understood in the North and East of Europe.
Freak_NL 8y ago
I don't think it's that; German would have been chosen instead of Spanish if that was the case.
- rabboRubble 8y ago
  True. The strange thing is the site overall has other journal articles with the same English, French, Spanish abstract set up. May be a convention for that site. I'm guessing that the article itself isn't translated into those other languages due to cost. The site provides paid translation services.
Bromskloss 8y ago
What does the European Union have to do with this?
- rabboRubble 8y ago
  The publishing company hosting the article is headquartered in London. I wondered if the location might have something to do with the languages found in the abstract. The languages are an odd selection. If they were going for penetration, why no Chinese or Hindi? I tried to find guidance on their website if the presented languages were mandatory but could not. Other journal articles had the same 3 languages in the abstract so it appeared to be a convention for that site. I did find translation services, for a cost which explains why the article was not translated into those languages. Edit: PS had an incredibly slow Sunday obviously :)

kaitai 8y ago

This journal is mainly "based" in the UK (look at the editorial board) and I think they include French & Spanish abstracts as a sort of historical courtesy to colleagues. Then the French & Spanish readers can figure out if it's worth the effort to read/translate the English. Many journals used to publish in several languages (or say they'll publish in English and French) and so require abstracts in all "supported" languages, but the language of international scholarship is increasingly English.