Other voices: authors’ literary-academic presence and publication in the discursive world system

Larson, Jay B.

doi:10.1080/01596306.2016.1278357

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“…Some non-Anglophone writers are multilingual and can reposition "their literary-academic presences from their national contexts" to a global one and dilute their authors' voices among the core scientific community (Larson, 2018, p. 521). The core here refers to the core in the discursive system as opposed to the periphery and semi-periphery seen as a combination of three elements: linguistic, epistemological, and material (Larson, 2018).…”

Section: Seven Deadly Sins: Culture's Effect On Scholarly Editing Andmentioning

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Seven Deadly Sins: Culture’s Effect on Scholarly Editing and Publishing

Raitskaya

Tikhonova

2020

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The opinion piece aims to draw readers’ attention to the effects cultures other than English-related ones exert on the processes of scholarly editing and publishing. Non-Anglophone writers with little academic English skills or a weak command of English tend to face desk-rejections or very difficult and time-consuming rounds of edits and revisions. Second-language researchers often are biased toward national schools of thought with the most prominent international research ignored. Such authors are unaware of the recent developments in their field on a global scale and are sometimes prone to misunderstanding scientific and academic genres in the internationally accepted mode. Non-Anglophone writers are also inclined toward native-language patterns of thought and, consequently, rhetorical schemas different from English. Such second-language researchers may have their specific understanding of ethics and criticism, responding to the latter in an unexpectedly harsh way. This combination of factors can lead to unoriginal, vague, unimportant, and unacceptable submissions to international journals, resulting in failures to disseminate their research globally. The authors share their approaches to curbing unpleasant and inefficient experiences for second-language contributors, editors, and reviewers.

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Section: Seven Deadly Sins: Culture's Effect On Scholarly Editing Andmentioning

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Seven Deadly Sins: Culture’s Effect on Scholarly Editing and Publishing

Raitskaya

Tikhonova

2020

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“…This is problematic because, as Connell (2007a) argues, research and theorising that do not recognise the different realities between the global North and South risk privileging parts of the world over others and promoting a false idea of universality. In addition, academics in the global South provide immense value in providing and facilitating authentic representations of the local contexts in which they are embedded, generating local solutions to local problems (Larson, 2017; Thomas, 2018).…”

Section: Social Work Knowledge and Alternative Voices In The Global Smentioning

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“…Despite the incredible internationalisation of academic publications, researchers in the global South face many barriers to publishing their research. Major publications are mostly located in the geopolitical and economic areas of North America and Western Europe (Larson, 2017), leaving researchers in the global South obscured from Northern research conventions, such as the use of English in publications, a focus on empirical knowledge and Northern epistemologies (Larson, 2017; Thomas, 2018). The dominance of English language social work publications obscures valid and important non-English publications, and can impede researchers working in non-English settings.…”

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“…The dominance of English language social work publications obscures valid and important non-English publications, and can impede researchers working in non-English settings. Furthermore, countries and institutions in the global South typically lack long histories of scholarly production that are recognised by the global North, as well as lacking basic access to Internet connectivity and subsequent access to international research databases, research software and training (Butterfield and Abye, 2012; Larson, 2017; Thomas, 2018).…”

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Geographical inequity in social work research: A snapshot of research publications from the global South

Roche

Flynn

2018

International Social Work

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Social work is observing an increasing awareness of geographical inequity in knowledge creation and dissemination, an interest in research by scholars from the global South, and debates about the extent to which the multiple contexts of social work are recognised. This article extends understandings of these research dynamics through reviewing recent articles authored in the global South and published in the 10 largest social work journals, subjecting them to analysis across institutional affiliation, author order and research type. Findings highlight an absence of knowledge from the global South, identifying major gaps in social work theorising, research and knowledge.

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“…However, their attitudes, epistemological beliefs, and academic practices might also be shaped by the norms valued in the local community where they conduct their research or the research conventions of their institutional affiliations. Due to the imbalanced distribution of global academic resources, the Core 1 (e.g., North America/European countries) dominates the production and dissemination of academic knowledge ( Kieńć, 2017 ; Larson, 2018 ). Notably, when institutional policies give more credit to Center-affiliated journals in which English has become unquestionably the language for scientific exchange, this linguistic imperialism ( Canagarajah, 2002 ; Pennycook, 2017 ; Lillis and Curry, 2018 ) could influence regional intellectual and epistemological assumptions espoused by scholars in general and discursive practices such as expressing attitudes in particular.…”

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“The very interesting finding suggests that…”: A cognitive frame-based analysis of interest markers by authors’ geo-academic location in applied linguistics research articles

Wang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Linguistic expressions of interest instantiated by interesting, intriguing, and fascinating that signal the authorial stance are not uncommon in applied linguistics research articles. Nevertheless, they have received little scholarly attention. This paper, taking a cognitive semantic approach, reports on a study that sought to examine how linguistically expressed interest in applied linguistics research articles is leveraged by researchers’ geo-academic location (the Core vs. the Periphery). Drawing on a semantic frame generated for interest markers in academic writing, this study focused on the incidence of the various elements of the Interest frame in the discipline of applied linguistics based on a mixed-methods approach. The corpus-based quantitative analyses found that academic writers’ geo-academic location was a robust predictor of authors’ overall use of interest markers and some frame elements associated with the Interest frame. Triangulation with the interview data obtained from disciplinary specialists revealed that the observed differences could be attributable to the hierarchical academia featuring periphery-based scholars’ unequal access to the knowledge production market and under-representation.

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Other voices: authors’ literary-academic presence and publication in the discursive world system

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Seven Deadly Sins: Culture’s Effect on Scholarly Editing and Publishing

Seven Deadly Sins: Culture’s Effect on Scholarly Editing and Publishing

Geographical inequity in social work research: A snapshot of research publications from the global South

“The very interesting finding suggests that…”: A cognitive frame-based analysis of interest markers by authors’ geo-academic location in applied linguistics research articles

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