{"id":2503,"date":"2022-12-10T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:51:51","slug":"el-espanol-reclama-su-lugar-en-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/2022\/12\/10\/el-espanol-reclama-su-lugar-en-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia\/","title":{"rendered":"El espa\u00f1ol reclama su lugar en la ciencia y la tecnolog\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/tecnologia\/2022-12-04\/el-idioma-espanol-en-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">https:\/\/elpais.com\/tecnologia\/2022-12-04\/el-idioma-espanol-en-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An article published on 4 Dec 2022 in<em> El Pa\u00eds <\/em>highlights how Spanish-speaking countries are mobilising to change the long-standing dominance of English in science and tech. The piece reports that Spain is leading a \u20ac1.1 billion public investment (via the strategic plan \u201cAlianza por la Nueva Econom\u00eda de la Lengua\u201d) to promote Spanish and co-official languages in five key areas: knowledge production in Spanish, AI in Spanish, science in Spanish, learning in Spanish, and cultural &amp; creative industries. The article also emphasises how although Spanish is the second most frequent language in scientific output, its <em>visibility<\/em> is still very low: almost all high-impact experimental science is published in English (or increasingly Chinese). Spanish remains overrepresented in humanities, social sciences and medical fields, but less so in lab-based disciplines. It also stresses that linguistic inclusion in digital technologies is a matter of both justice and economic opportunity: if Spanish is left out of the AI, cloud and translation ecosystem, the gap with English and other major languages will widen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a timely piece that speaks directly to our interests in multilingualism, identity and language policy. A few reflections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The move to treat Spanish (and by extension other less-dominant languages) as strategic assets in science &amp; tech is refreshing. It shifts the narrative from \u201cwe must learn English\u201d to \u201cour languages also have value and deserve representation\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s interesting to see how the article links language to <em>economics<\/em> and <em>technology<\/em>: not only: culture and identity, but also market share, AI datasets and international competitiveness. That gives the language-policy issue more traction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yet, the structural dominance of English remains huge in experimental science. As the piece says: 99% of the publications from top research centres in Spain still go through English. That means the transformation will require long-term commitment, not just funding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For our work in translation\/localisation and in language education: this suggests a growing field of opportunity. If Spanish becomes more embedded in AI, data, tech production, there will be demand for terminological expertise, multilingual corpora, machine-learning in Spanish, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One caveat: the article doesn\u2019t go deeply into how languages other than Spanish (e.g., co-official languages in Spain, regional identities) will fit. It mentions them, but the operational implications are less clear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, from a European-multilingualism perspective: this case shows that even large global languages (Spanish) can feel \u201cminor\u201d in the tech\/science ecosystems. So for truly minor or regional languages the challenge is even steeper \u2014 but the logic remains: visibility, presence and capacity in technology\/digital matter more than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, the Spanish-language science &amp; tech ecosystem is at a turning point. The push here offers both a symbolic and practical shift in language policy. For anyone working on language education, translation, multilingual tech or European language policy, this is worth watching. Not only the \u2018what\u2019 (spanish = asset) but the \u2018how\u2019 (investment, digital tech, terminologies) will matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me know what you think: Do you see opportunities in your field maybe changing because of this? Or perhaps comparators in other European languages you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(https:\/\/elpais.com\/tecnologia\/2022-12-04\/el-idioma-espanol-en-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia.html) An article published on 4 Dec 2022 in El Pa\u00eds highlights how Spanish-speaking countries are mobilising to change the long-standing dominance of English in science and tech. The piece reports that Spain is leading a \u20ac1.1 billion public investment (via the strategic plan \u201cAlianza por la Nueva Econom\u00eda de la Lengua\u201d) to promote Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/uniling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}