Professional Academic Writing in a Global Context
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Professional Academic Writing in a Global Context is a longitudinal study focusing on the politics and practices of academic text production in a global context.
Key research questions are:
- How is the dominance of English affecting scholars who use languages other than English and live/work in non-English dominant contexts?
- In what ways is English as an academic lingua franca influencing academic knowledge production and exchange in the twenty first century?
- Which texts are successful or unsuccessful in being accepted for publication, and why?
- How can a range of methodologies- text, ethnographic, corpus- be combined to explore academic writing in a global context?
Overview of studyin English [view...] Spanish [view...] Portuguese [view...] Slovak [view...] Hungarian [view...] |
Project 1 Text-oriented ethnographyA longitudinal study of the experiences and academic publishing practices of 50 scholars in Slovakia, Hungary Spain and Portugal. |
Project 2 Corpus based analysis of published psychology articles1 million word corpus TAKPsych of English medium psychology articles published in different national contexts. |
The research has been funded by ESRC (ESRC RES-000-22-0098 and ESRC RES 000-22-2234), The British Academy, The Open University (UK), University of Rochester (USA).
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