Translation and the lingua franca in scientific communication: The case of the scientific community from Mexico

The study focuses on the discursive characteristics (i.e. those derived from the interaction between Spanish and English in scientific academic discourse), and the non-discursive factors (i.e. local factors such as economic stability and scientific tradition in Mexico) that affect the visibility of research articles (RA) in international journals of the scientific community from Mexico.

A second major focus of the thesis concerns a survey designed to obtain information about the publishing process in international journals, completed by a small group of Mexican researchers from two leading scientific institutions in Mexico, CINVESTAV Queretaro and the Physics Department from UNISON in Mexico. These research centres are located in two different cities in Mexico, Queretaro and Hermosillo. <br><br>Through the linguistic analysis of the hybrid discourse developed by Mexican scientists, this thesis intends to study the influence of English as the lingua franca in scientific publication and the changes that such influence has caused in the written production of RA by Mexican researchers in Spanish as the L1 and English as the L2.