Abstract This paper reports on a study that looked at Portuguese public universities setting out to identify and discuss institutional stakeholders’ social representations concerning the use of languages in scientific research and the development of institutional language policies within this area of higher education activity. In order to do so, institutional stakeholders responsible for research activities at six Portuguese public universities completed a questionnaire and participated in in-depth interviews. The findings indicate there are common tendencies regarding the identified social representations that point, mainly, to a tension between, on one hand, the existence of reported practices that centre on “English-mainly” research language policies, reflecting the current monolingual scenario of global science and, on the other hand, the need for a more plurilingual science and the privileging of Portuguese as a science language.

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葡萄牙高等教育机构的科学研究和语言

摘要 本文报告了一项研究，该研究着眼于葡萄牙公立大学，旨在确定和讨论机构利益相关者在科学研究中使用语言以及在该高等教育活动领域制定机构语言政策方面的社会代表性。为此，葡萄牙六所公立大学负责研究活动的机构利益相关者完成了一份问卷并参与了深度访谈。调查结果表明，在确定的社会表征方面存在共同的趋势，主要是，一方面，存在以“以英语为主”的研究语言政策的报告实践之间存在紧张关系，这反映了当前全球单语情景。科学，另一方面，