The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing

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.

Examines an issue of major linguistic and political relevance in nation-states across the globe Analyses the predominance of English from the perspective of Swedish Academia Provides an explanatory sociological framework of the issues at hand Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
'A thoughtful study of the importance of language choice for making scholarly findings known to the world.' Dr Florian Coulmas, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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.

Inhalt

• 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.