The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing (eBook)

Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus

Linus Salö (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
VII, 141 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-58940-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Towards a Sociolinguistics of Scientific ProductionChapter 3. Pierre Bourdieu: view points and entry pointsChapter 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 comparisonsChapter 8. Concluding remarks

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2017
• Zusatzinfo: VII, 141 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: English • English for Academic Purposes • English in Sweden • linguistic fluxes • Research policy • Scandinavian Languages • Scientific Publishing
• ISBN-10: 3-319-58940-7 / 3319589407
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-58940-4 / 9783319589404