Language and the Knowledge Economy

Multilingual Scholarly Publishing in Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-53670-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes

This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in contemporary academia across different European settings for research purposes.

The volume is organised around three parts: the first part explores individual factors underpinning knowledge production and their role in shaping scholars’ academic careers; the second part critically reflects on the challenges and opportunities for multilingual scholars in the academic landscape, examining the inherent tensions in the interactions between English and other languages; the final part considers the ways in which academic knowledge is institutionalised – at universities, private companies, and on a national scale – and the subsequent impact on knowledge dissemination. Taken together, the chapters provide a coherent and holistic overview of the affordances and limitations that different social actors experience when participating in such cycles, including the different modes of access to resources across geographic contexts and disciplinary traditions. An important contribution of the volume is the multilayered angle that it incorporates into analysing issues of scholarly publishing in today's academia, placing language as a social practice at the heart of the structuring processes that condition the creation, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge in contemporary societies.

This book will be of interest to scholars in English for research and publication purposes, sociolinguistics, language and education, and applied linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soler, Josep

Kaufhold, Kathrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1. Language, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge economy in multilingual Europe: Exploring interconnections

Josep Soler and Kathrin Kaufhold

Part I Conditions for academic knowledge production

2. Knowledge production and consumption in British academia

Sharon McCulloch

3. The political economy of linguistic capital: The Dutch case of academic scholarship

Renë Gabriels and Robert Wilkinson

Part II Challenges for multilingual scholars

4. (Re)drawing the line: Deficit and empowerment in articles on writing research from Central and Eastern Europe

Clauda Dorobolschi and Loredana Bercuci

5. The language of contemporary philosophy

Filippo Contesi

6. What moves with us when we move? Possible Future Academic Selves in trajectories of exile

Baraa Khuder and Bojana Petric

7. Academics’ legitimacy and self-worth: Exploring connections between English, professional identity, and neoliberal trends in Italian academia

Beatrice Zuaro

Part III Institutional regimes in the knowledge economy

8. Multilingualism is important for all fields of science: Evidence from Finland and Poland

Janne Pölönen and Emanuel Kulczycki

9. Problematising academic journals’ evaluation systems: A case-study approach to sociolinguistics databases indexing for medium-sized languages

Maria Sabaté-Dalmau and Natxo Sorolla

10. English and academic publishing: Capitalist endeavours, colonial entanglements, and knowledge production

Miguel Pérez-Milans, Kathrin Kaufhold, and Josep Soler

11. For metascience: A postscript

Linus Salö

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josep Soler is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Kathrin Kaufhold is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden.