The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing [electronic resource] : Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus /
Salö, Linus.author.
‘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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- 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.
‘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.
Sociolinguistics.
Language policy.
English language.
Applied linguistics.
Scandinavian languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Language Policy and Planning.
English.
Applied Linguistics.
Scandinavian.