Full Description
This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in contemporary academia across different European settings for research purposes.
The volume is organised around three parts: the first part explores individual factors underpinning knowledge production and their role in shaping scholars' academic careers; the second part critically reflects on the challenges and opportunities for multilingual scholars in the academic landscape, examining the inherent tensions in the interactions between English and other languages; the final part considers the ways in which academic knowledge is institutionalised - at universities, private companies, and on a national scale - and the subsequent impact on knowledge dissemination. Taken together, the chapters provide a coherent and holistic overview of the affordances and limitations that different social actors experience when participating in such cycles, including the different modes of access to resources across geographic contexts and disciplinary traditions. An important contribution of the volume is the multilayered angle that it incorporates into analysing issues of scholarly publishing in today's academia, placing language as a social practice at the heart of the structuring processes that condition the creation, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge in contemporary societies.
This book will be of interest to scholars in English for research and publication purposes, sociolinguistics, language and education, and applied linguistics.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1. Language, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge economy in multilingual Europe: Exploring interconnections
Josep Soler and Kathrin Kaufhold
Part I Conditions for academic knowledge production
2. Knowledge production and consumption in British academia
Sharon McCulloch
3. The political economy of linguistic capital: The Dutch case of academic scholarship
Renë Gabriels and Robert Wilkinson
Part II Challenges for multilingual scholars
4. (Re)drawing the line: Deficit and empowerment in articles on writing research from Central and Eastern Europe
Clauda Dorobolschi and Loredana Bercuci
5. The language of contemporary philosophy
Filippo Contesi
6. What moves with us when we move? Possible Future Academic Selves in trajectories of exile
Baraa Khuder and Bojana Petrić
7. Academics' legitimacy and self-worth: Exploring connections between English, professional identity, and neoliberal trends in Italian academia
Beatrice Zuaro
Part III Institutional regimes in the knowledge economy
8. Multilingualism is important for all fields of science: Evidence from Finland and Poland
Janne Pölönen and Emanuel Kulczycki
9. Problematising academic journals' evaluation systems: A case-study approach to sociolinguistics databases indexing for medium-sized languages
Maria Sabaté-Dalmau and Natxo Sorolla
10. English and academic publishing: Capitalist endeavours, colonial entanglements, and knowledge production
Miguel Pérez-Milans, Kathrin Kaufhold, and Josep Soler
11. For metascience: A postscript
Linus Salö
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