Abstract The linguistic privilege of native speakers in scientific communication, both oral and written, has been widely reported to influence researchers’ publications and careers in and beyond academia. I examine social structure and communication in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields through the example of big science and attempt to answer the question of why language injustice has a less significant effect on non-native scientists and engineers than on philosophy scholars. I do so by scrutinizing the role of signs and nonlinguistic boundary objects in STEM practice and written communication. I also argue that although high-energy physics is relatively linguistically inclusive, it is marked by linguistic privilege of certain groups that bears a structural character which is not common in STEM and is predominant mainly in megascience. I finally suggest that insofar as rhetoric in STEM is generally modest, its practices can serve as an example for analytic philosophy, which also aims at minimizing rhetoric.

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语言特权与正义：我们可以从STEM学到什么？

摘要广泛报道了以母语为母语的人在科学交流中的语言特权，无论是口头还是书面，都会影响研究人员在学术界内外的出版物和职业。我以大型科学为例研究了科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的社会结构和交流，并试图回答为什么语言不公正对非本地科学家和工程师的影响不如对哲学的影响大的问题学者。我通过仔细研究符号和非语言边界对象在STEM练习和书面交流中的作用来做到这一点。我还认为，尽管高能物理在语言上具有相对的包容性，它具有某些群体的语言特权，这些特权具有结构性特征，这在STEM中并不常见，并且主要在大科学中占主导地位。我最后建议，就STEM中的修辞一般而言，要适度，它的实践可以作为分析哲学的一个例子，该分析哲学也旨在最小化修辞。