The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Academic Practice: The ‘Semiperiphery’ as a Category for Social and Linguistic Analysis

   1. Introduction: The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Academic Practice: The ‘Semiperiphery’ as a Category for Social and Linguistic Analysis

      • Karen Bennett

      Pages 1-9

3. Discourses in Tension

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Erosion of Portuguese Historiographic Discourse

      • Karen Bennett

      Pages 13-38

   3. The Changing Face of Czech Academic Discourse

      • Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova

      Pages 39-61

   4. Academic Discourse Practices in Greece: Exploring the ‘International Conference of Greek Linguistics’

      • Dimitra Vladimirou

      Pages 62-74

   5. Teaching Academic Writing for the Global World in Poland: The ELF Perspective

      • Anna Gonerko-Frej

      Pages 75-90

4. Communities in Conflict

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Centre-Periphery Relations in the Spanish Context: Temporal and Cross-Disciplinary Variation

      • Sally Burgess

      Pages 93-104

   3. Portuguese Academics’ Attitudes to English as the Academic Lingua Franca: A Case-Study

      • Rita Queiroz de Barros

      Pages 105-120

   4. Changing Research Writing Practices in Romania: Perceptions and Attitudes

      • Mirela Bardi, Laura-Mihaela Muresan

      Pages 121-147

   5. Looking Back from the Centre: Experiences of Italian Humanities Scholars Living and Writing Abroad

      • Raffaella Negretti

      Pages 148-162

5. Publication Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Turkish Academic Culture in Transition: Centre-Based State Policies and Semiperipheral Practices of Research, Publishing and Promotion

      • Hacer Hande Uysal

      Pages 165-188

   3. English-Medium Journals in Serbia: Editors’ Perspectives

      • Bojana Petrić

      Pages 189-209

   4. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences

      • Matko Marušić, Ana Marušić

      Pages 210-220

   5. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre

      • Małgorzata Sokół

      Pages 221-239

6. Conclusion: Combating the Centripetal Pull in Academic Writing

   1. Conclusion: Combating the Centripetal Pull in Academic Writing

      • Karen Bennett

      Pages 240-246

7. Back Matter

   Pages 247-282

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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.

• discourse
• English
• Greek
• linguistics
• Spanish
• discourse analysis

“This edited book provides a collection of twelve chapters discussing issues in relation to the notion of ‘Semiperiphery’ with a special focus on academic writing. … this is a very enlightening volume clarifying the key notions and challenges in the semiperiphery. … will definitely be of interest to all researchers into this topic and provide guidance to scholars in exploring such tensions or conflicts of academic writing and publishing in other geographically and economically semiperipheral contexts.” (Erdem Akbas, JELF Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, Vol. 5 (1), 2016)

'This well-edited collection is timely, surprising, and important.' - English for Specific Purposes

• Centre for English Studies (ULICES), University of Lisbon, Portugal

  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

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