Full Description
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.
Contents
- 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.
