The semiperiphery of academic writing : discourses, communities and practices
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The semiperiphery of academic writing : discourses, communities and practices
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses.
Table of Contents
- 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
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