The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing Discourses, Communities and Practices

With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses.

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 Petri? 11. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences; Ana Marusi? and Matko Marusi? 12. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre; Ma?gorzata Soko? Conclusion: Countering the Centripetal Forces in Academic Writing; Karen Bennett

Mirela Bardi, Bucharest University of Economics, Romania Rita Queiroz de Barros, University of Lisbon, Portugal Karen Bennett, University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon, Portugal Sally Burgess, University of La Laguna, Spain Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic Anna Gonerko-Frej, Szczecin University, Poland Ana Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Matko Maru i?, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia Laura-Mihaela Muresan, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Raffaella Negretti, Stockholm University, Sweden Bojana Petri?, University of Essex, UK Malgorzata Sokól, Szczecin University, Poland Hacer Hande Uysal, Gazi University, Turkey Dimitra Vladimirou, Hellenic American University, Greece