The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing

Language and the Practices of Homo Academicus
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-58939-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 141 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salö, Linus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.