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S. Nikolova • On the use of “Lingua Franca” and local languages in the publications ...
3. Humanities in all 27 member states of the European
Union has more than 100 or even more than 200-year
scientific tradition in the local official languages today.
The termination of publications in these languages, regardless
of how little they are used, will inevitably lead
to disruption of these traditions and to delays in the research
process.
4. Very often scientists-humanitarians from around the
world who carry out comparative studies or are engaged
in research on humanities, concerning foreign countries,
are fluent in the language of the respective countries.
They not only do not have difficulty using the research
written in the respective official languages, but also write
their own research in these languages and publish them
in these countries.
5. In many cases, the research on Humanities written in an
official European language, albeit little used, are published
abroad in that specific language rather than in
any international language, if that particular language is
relevant to the nature of the respective edition or publishing
house.
6. It is a matter of honor and dignity for every nation in the
European Union to develop a scientific tradition in the
area of Humanities in its own language.
7. Everything said so far does not mean that the works published
in the official languages of the EU member states
should not be published in international languages. Rather,
it would be a good practice if they are also translated
and published in the lingua franca. Of course, this practice
cannot be applied in all cases due to the significant
increase in the cost of the publications and the risks of
publishing inaccurate or false translations. However, this
practice should be extended as far as the most important
works are concerned.
I would also like to point out that it is not desirable to publish
the works on Humanities in the numerous dialects
spoken in the EU member states, although in some cases
many efforts are made today to protect the so called microlanguages,
in many cases attempts are also made to standardize
these dialects, so that they can be used as literary
languages. At this stage, they not only do not have any
scientific traditions, but the endless multiplication of languages,
in which the research on humanities is published,
will inevitably lead them to the state of the Tower of Babel,
where the mutual understanding will be very difficult,
perhaps often impossible.
Finally, I would like to say that the principles described here
are followed consistently in all of our publications. In the
publications of the CMRC every scholar is free to publish his
research works in the language of his choice (so in the Palaeobulgarica
journal and in the books published by us,
every scholar may use English, French, German, Russian and
Bulgarian and in the Kirilo-Metodievski Studii (Cyrillo-Methodian
Studies) series - besides these languages also all
Slavic languages). Every article and book has an abstract in
English and in some cases in German. We plan to follow in
the future the practice that we have been following so far.
At the same time in recent years one can note an increase
of our publications in foreign languages (mainly in English).
In some of them we publish results that have been already
presented in Bulgarian. We consider this practice to be very
useful and we shall continue it in the future as we envisage
to publish collections with the most important works of our
scholars in English. We believe that the practice would
greatly benefit. You can see how these publications look
like in our editions presented here.
Vortrag, gehalten auf der Konferenz:
“Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities”
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
27/28 November 2009
• Svetlina Nikolova, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Director
Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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