The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices

ISBN-13: 9781137351180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 296 str.

Karen Bennett

Opis

Researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, which requires them to bring their academic writing into line with the norms enforced at the centre of the system. This book explores some of the issues affecting authors from countries on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses. Through a series of case studies from 10 countries in Southern and Eastern Europe, the chapters discuss themes such as the dominance of English and its effects upon traditional scholarly discourses, the difficulties these researchers face in trying to negotiate a dual identity as members of both the global and local academic discourse communities, knowledge flows on the semiperiphery, and discrepancies between state policy and de facto practice on issues such as academic recruitment and intellectual property.

Recenzje

"This edited book provides a collection of twelve chapters discussing issues in relation to the notion of 'Semiperiphery' with a special focus on academic writing. ... this is a very enlightening volume clarifying the key notions and challenges in the semiperiphery. ... will definitely be of interest to all researchers into this topic and provide guidance to scholars in exploring such tensions or conflicts of academic writing and publishing in other geographically and economically semiperipheral contexts." (Erdem Akbas, JELF Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, Vol. 5 (1), 2016)

'This well-edited collection is timely, surprising, and important.' - English for Specific Purposes

Spis treści

Introduction - The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Academic Practice: The 'Semiperiphery' as a Category for Social and Linguistic Analysis; Karen Bennett PART I: DISCOURSES IN TENSION 1. The Erosion of Portuguese Historiographic Discourse; Karen Bennett 2. The Changing Face of Czech Academic Writing; Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova 3. Academic Discourse Practices in Greece: Exploring the 'International Conference of Greek Linguistics'; Dimitra Vladimirou 4. Teaching Academic Writing for the Global World in Poland: The ELF Perspective; Anna Gonerko-Frej PART II: COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT 5. Centre-periphery Relations in the Spanish Context: Temporal and Cross-disciplinary Variation; Sally Burgess 6. Portuguese Academics' Attitudes to English as the Lingua Franca: A Case Study; Rita Queiroz de Barros 7. Changing Research Writing Practices in Romania: Perceptions and Attitudes; Mirela Bardi and Laura Muresan 8. Looking Back from the Centre: Experiences and Perspectives of Italian Academics Living/Working Abroad; Raffaella Negretti PART III: PUBLICATION PRACTICES 9. Turkish Academic Culture in Transition: Centre-based State Policies and Semiperipheral Practices of Research, Publishing and Promotion; Hacer Hande Uysal 10. English-medium Journals in Serbia: Editors' Perspectives; Bojana Petri? 11. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences; Ana Marusi? and Matko Marusi? 12. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre; Ma?gorzata Soko? Conclusion: Countering the Centripetal Forces in Academic Writing; Karen Bennett

O autorze

Mirela Bardi, Bucharest University of Economics, Romania Rita Queiroz de Barros, University of Lisbon, Portugal Karen Bennett, University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon, Portugal Sally Burgess, University of La Laguna, Spain Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic Anna Gonerko-Frej, Szczecin University, Poland Ana Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Matko Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Laura-Mihaela Muresan, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Raffaella Negretti, Stockholm University, Sweden Bojana Petri?, University of Essex, UK Malgorzata Sokól, Szczecin University, Poland Hacer Hande Uysal, Gazi University, Turkey Dimitra Vladimirou, Hellenic American University, Greece