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The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing: Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus

Autor Linus Salö
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2017
This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new regimes of research evaluation and performance-based funding are impinging on university life. His central argument, following the French sociologist Bourdieu, is that the trend towards publishing in English should be understood as a social strategy, developed in response to such transformations. Thought-provoking and challenging, this book will interest students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language planning and language policy, research policy, sociology of science, history and psychology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319589398
ISBN-10: 3319589393
Pagini: 143
Ilustrații: VII, 141 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Towards a Sociolinguistics of Scientific Production.- Chapter 3. Pierre Bourdieu: view points and entry points.- Chapter 4. The sociolinguistics of science: the longue durée.- Chapter 5. Contemporary academia in transformation.- Chapter 6. Habitus as fields made flesh.- Chapter 7. Discussion: two axes of comparisons.- Chapter 8. Concluding remarks.

Notă biografică

Linus Salö is a researcher at Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is active in a number of disciplinary fields, including sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

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‘A thoughtful study of the importance of language choice for making scholarly findings known to the world.’
— Dr Florian Coulmas, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new regimes of research evaluation and performance-based funding are impinging on university life. His central argument, following the French sociologist Bourdieu, is that the trend towards publishing in English should be understood as a social strategy, developed in response to such transformations. Thought-provoking and challenging, this book will interest students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language planning and language policy, research policy, sociology of science, history and psychology.

Caracteristici

Examines an issue of major linguistic and political relevance in nation-states across the globe Analyses the predominance of English from the perspective of Swedish Academia Provides an explanatory sociological framework of the issues at hand Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras