Spanish language in science and technology
Spanish language is used in a wide range of areas of science and techonology. However given its large number of speakers, the Spanish language does not feature prominently in scientific writing, with the exception of the humanities.[1] Scholar Enrique Alarcón explains the case of engineering where he posits three causes for the poor Spanish used in the subject; words exists but are unknown, confusion between simmilar but not identical conceps and lack of precision when using terminology.[2] The poor state of the Spanish language used in engineering may stem from a mix of engineering traditions and imposibility of having a classical education in multiple branches of engineering. Alternatively the poor state of the language may derive from a lack of a previous tradition in a subject.[2]
References
- ^ "El español se atasca como lengua científica". Servicio de Información y Noticias Científicas (in Spanish). March 5, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ a b Alarcón, Enrique (2007). "El lexicón de la Real Academia de Ingeniería". In Sequera, Reyes (ed.). Ciencia, tecnología y lengua española: la terminología científica en español (in Spanish). Madrid: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología. p. 11–15.