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

by Linus Salö

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319589404
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	07/06/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	141
File size:	273 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Towards a Sociolinguistics of Scientific ProductionChapter 3. Pierre Bourdieu: view points and entry pointsChapter 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 comparisonsChapter 8. Concluding remarks