The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing: Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus

ISBN-13: 9783319865157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 141 str.

Linus Salo

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

‘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.