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

'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 Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-15 Toward a Sociolinguistics of Scientific Production....Pages 17-28 Pierre Bourdieu: View Points and Entry Points....Pages 29-42 The Sociolinguistics of Science: The Longue Durée....Pages 43-69 Contemporary Academia in Transformation....Pages 71-88 Habitus as Fields Made Flesh....Pages 89-119 Discussion: Two Axes of Comparison....Pages 121-130 Concluding Remarks....Pages 131-136 Back Matter....Pages 137-141 Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Toward A Sociolinguistics Of Scientific Production -- 3. Pierre Bourdieu: View Points And Entry Points -- 4. The Sociolinguistics Of Science: The Longue Duree -- 5. Contemporary Academia In Transformation -- 6. Habitus As Fields Made Flesh -- 7. Discussion: Two Axes Of Comparison -- 8. Concluding Remarks. Linus Salö. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.