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

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.- 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 dur?e.- Chapter 5. Contemporary academia in transformation.- Chapter 6. Habitus as fields made flesh.- Chapter 7. Discussion: two axes of comparisons.- Chapter 8. Concluding remarks.Linus Sal? 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.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, followinl“F