The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing
Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Foreign Languages, Scandinavian, Language Arts, Linguistics
| Author: | Linus Salö | ISBN: | 9783319589404 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | Publication: | July 6, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Linus Salö |
| ISBN: | 9783319589404 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Publication: | July 6, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
