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

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.

List of contents

- 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.

Product details

• Authors: Linus Salö
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2017
• EAN: 9783319589398
• ISBN: 978-3-31-958939-8
• No. of pages: 141
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Illustrations: VII, 141 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, C, Linguistics, English, Germanische und Skandinavische Sprachen, English Language, Sociolinguistics, Social Sciences, scandinavian, Applied Linguistics, Language: reference & general, Language Policy and Planning, Language policy, Scandinavian languages