The semiperiphery of academic writing : discourses, communities and practices /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Academic Practice: The 'Semiperiphery' as a Category for Social and Linguistic Analysis; Karen Bennett
- PART I: DISCOURSES IN TENSION
- 1. The Erosion of Portuguese Historiographic Discourse; Karen Bennett
- 2. The Changing Face of Czech Academic Writing; Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
- 3. Academic Discourse Practices in Greece: Exploring the 'International Conference of Greek Linguistics'; Dimitra Vladimirou
- 4. Teaching Academic Writing for the Global World in Poland: The ELF Perspective; Anna Gonerko-Frej
- PART II: COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT
- 5. Centre-periphery Relations in the Spanish Context: Temporal and Cross-disciplinary Variation; Sally Burgess
- 6. Portuguese Academics' Attitudes to English as the Lingua Franca: A Case Study; Rita Queiroz de Barros
- 7. Changing Research Writing Practices in Romania: Perceptions and Attitudes; Mirela Bardi and Laura Muresan
- 8. Looking Back from the Centre: Experiences and Perspectives of Italian Academics Living/Working Abroad; Raffaella Negretti
- PART III: PUBLICATION PRACTICES
- 9. Turkish Academic Culture in Transition: Centre-based State Policies and Semiperipheral Practices of Research, Publishing and Promotion; Hacer Hande Uysal
- 10. English-medium Journals in Serbia: Editors' Perspectives; Bojana Petric
- 11. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences; Ana Maruic and Matko Maruic
- 12. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre; Malgorzata SokĖ¤l
- Conclusion: Countering the Centripetal Forces in Academic Writing; Karen Bennett.