The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing - New book from postdoc Linus Salö
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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.
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You can purchase to book through Palgrave here .
Linus Salö has been a postdoc with the Division since the 1st of July, in the project Making Universities Matter