The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices

by K. Bennett (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349468706
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mirela Bardi, Bucharest University of Economics, Romania Rita Queiroz de Barros, University of Lisbon, Portugal Karen Bennett, University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon, Portugal Sally Burgess, University of La Laguna, Spain Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic Anna Gonerko-Frej, Szczecin University, Poland Ana Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Matko Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Laura-Mihaela Muresan, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Raffaella Negretti, Skholm University, Sweden Bojana Petrić, University of Essex, UK Malgorzata Sokól, Szczecin University, Poland Hacer Hande Uysal, Gazi University, Turkey Dimitra Vladimirou, Hellenic American University, Greece

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 Petrić 11. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences; Ana Marusić and Matko Marusić 12. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre; Maßgorzata Soko? Conclusion: Countering the Centripetal Forces in Academic Writing; Karen Bennett

Editorial Reviews

This edited book provides a collection of twelve chapters discussing issues in relation to the notion of ‘Semiperiphery’ with a special focus on academic writing. … this is a very enlightening volume clarifying the key notions and challenges in the semiperiphery. … will definitely be of interest to all researchers into this topic and provide guidance to scholars in exploring such tensions or conflicts of academic writing and publishing in other geographically and economically semiperipheral contexts.” (Erdem Akbas, JELF Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, Vol. 5 (1), 2016)

'This well-edited collection is timely, surprising, and important.' - English for Specific Purposes

From the Publisher