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Title English as a scientific and research language : debates and discourses : English in Europe. volume 2 / edited by Ramón Plo Alastrué ; Carmen Pérez-Llantada
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations
Series Language and Social Life ; v. 3
Language and Social Life
Contents Series preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: The socio-cultural scenario; 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
Part II: The discourse community scenarioOn 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 journalsPeer reviewers' recommendations for language improvement in research writing; Part III: The language policy scenario. English as a lingua franca in linguistics?; 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 pointThe 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
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
Notes Collection of papers from several conferences held as part of a research project called English in Europe: opportunity or threat? which ran from Jan. 2012 to Oct. 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English language -- Europe
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Europe
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Europe
Science -- Europe -- Terminology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Education, Higher -- Europe.
Language and education -- Europe
Education, Higher
English language
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Language and education
Science
Europe
Genre/Form Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author Plo-Alastrué, Ramón, editor
Pérez-Llantada, Carmen, editor,
ISBN 9781614516378
1614516375
Other Titles Debates and discourses
English in Europe