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Introduction 7

C h a p t e r 1. English as the leading language of academic communication worldwide 11
1.1. World Englishes and the problem of standards 11
1.2. English as a global language, linguistic
imperialism, and World English 15
1.3. Upsides and downsides of the dominance of
English in scholarship 22
1.4. Poland as a semiperiphery country and
Anglophone-center publications 27
1.5. Two main roles of English in academic
publications 29

C h a p t e r 2. Written academic discourse and its composition 33
2.1. Defining academic discourse 33
2.2. Analyzing academic discourse: The main paradigms
38
2.3. The genre of a research article 40
2.4. The characteristics of a research article in
linguistics and applied linguistics 43
2.5. Culture-specific differences in research
article writing 48
2.6. Academic writing as a cognitive, sociocognitive
and sociocultural process 52

C h a p t e r 3. Writing for publishing in international and local journals 55
3.1. The main determinant of the number of
international publications 55
3.2. Evaluation of academic work based on publishing
output 57
3.3. Gatekeeping practices and non-discoursive
obstacles 59
3.4. Publishing in local journals 61

C h a p t e r 4. Research on English as a foreign language academic writing by Polish scholars: The main problems explored 67
4.1. The impact of research on foreign language
academic writing on the area of second language
academic writing 67
4.2. Foreign language academic writing explored by
Polish researchers 68
4.2.1. Comparative analyses of academic texts 69
4.2.2. Negative attitude towards developing the
writing skill 70
4.2.3. Research focusing on the process of writing
72
4.2.4. Research on the epistemic function of
writing 75
4.2.5. Academic writing to learn language and
content 77
4.2.6. Other directions of academic writing
research by Polish scholars 78

C h a p t e r 5. The study 87
5.1. The background of the study 87
5.2. The aim and the research questions 89
5.3. The method 90
5.3.1. Description of the tool 92
5.3.2. The characteristics of research articles 94
5.4. The participants 95
5.5. The procedure 96
5.6. Results 97
5.6.1. The system of evaluation of academic work
based on publications in highly-rated journals 97
5.6.2. The double-blind peer review system 101
5.6.3. Publishing in local journals, in the
scholars’ mother tongue in particular 104
5.6.4. Writing for international versus local
journals in terms of effortfulness 106
5.6.5. Native English speakers’ privilege and non-
native speakers’ advantages in writing for
publishing 107
5.6.6. Discoursive and non-discoursive obstacles
researchers face when publishing papers and ways
of overcoming them 110
5.6.7. The attitude, work and comments of the
reviewers and other publication staff 112
5.6.8. The aspects of the text that were mostly
focused on in the reviews 114
5.6.9. The strongest point of the article: The
main reason for the article being accepted 116
5.6.10. The people who contributed to the success
in publishing the article and the ways they helped
117
5.6.11. A particularly challenging section of the
article 119
5.6.12. The use of authorial voice 120
5.6.13. The use of hedges 123
5.6.14. The use of evaluative language for
claiming centrality 125
5.6.15. The way the researchers learnt to write
research articles 127
5.7. Summary of interview findings 131

C h a p t e r 6. Conclusions and implications for instruction 135

Acknowledgments 141
Appendix 143
References 145
Index of names 159
Subject index 163
Streszczenie 169

Szczegóły ebooka Non-natives writing for Anglo-American journals: Challenges and urgent needs

Wydawca:

Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Rok wydania:

2019

Typ publikacji:

Ebook

Język:

polski

Format:

epub,pdf,mobi

ISBN:

978-83-235-3685-7

ISBN wersji papierowej:

978-83-235-3677-2

Wydanie:

1

Autorzy:

Katarzyna Hryniuk

EAN:

9788323536857

Miejsce wydania:

Warszawa

Liczba Stron:

172

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