English as a scientific and research language. English in Europe. Volume 2 : debates and discourses / edited by Ramón Plo Alastrué, Carmen Pérez-Llantada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plo-Alastrué, Ramón, editor.

Pérez-Llantada, Carmen, editor.

Series:

Language and Social Life

Language and Social Life, 2364-4303 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Europe.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Science--Terminology--Europe.

Science.

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge--Europe.

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.

Education, Higher--Europe.

Education, Higher.

Language and education--Europe.

Language and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the role of English in academic and research settings in Europe and provides recommendations on the challenges posed by the dominance of English over national languages as languages of science and research dissemination; the need for language support for academics that need to disseminate their research in English; and the effect of past and present language policies.

Contents:

Front matter

Series preface

Contents

List of Contributors

Debates and discourses on English as an academic and research language

Towards an epistemological monoculture: Mechanisms of epistemicide in European research publication

Citing outside the community? An investigation of the language of bibliography in top journals

Resources for publishing in English as a foreign language: Strategies, peers and techniques

Language policy in web-mediated scientific knowledge dissemination: A case study of risk communication across genres and languages

On cross-cultural variation in the use of conjuncts in research articles by Czech and native speakers of English: Can conjuncts contribute to the interactive and dialogic character of academic texts?

Spanish authors dealing with hedging or the challenges of scholarly publication in English L2

Academic writing in English in comparison: Degree adverbs, connecting adverbials, and contrastive/concessive markers in the ChemCorpus and comparable data-bases

Cross-cultural variation in citation practices: A comparative analysis of citations in Czech English-medium and international English-medium linguistics journals

Peer reviewers’ recommendations for language improvement in research writing

English as a lingua franca in linguistics? A case study of German linguists’ language use in publications

Academic English as “nobody’s land”: The research and publication practices of Swedish academics

Addressing the challenge of publishing internationally in a non-Anglophone academic context: Romania – a case in point

The implementation of English-medium instruction in Croatian higher education: Attitudes, expectations and concerns

Teaching English as a Lingua Franca in a multilingual environment: The evaluation of native and non-native teachers of English by Polish university students

Teasing out the tensions between English monolingualism vs. plurilingualism in European academic and research settings

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Descritpion based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501501111

1501501119

9781614516378

1614516375

OCLC:

948655743