English in Europe: Volume 2 English as a Scientific and Research Language: Debates and Discourses

376 Pages·2015·3.443 MB·

by  Ramón Plo Alastrué (editor), Carmen Pérez-Llantada (editor)

RamónPloAlastrué,CarmenPérez-Llantada(Eds.)
EnglishasaScientificandResearchLanguage
Language and Social Life
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Editors
David Britain
Crispin Thurlow
Founding Editor
Richard J. Watts
Volume 3
English as a
Scientific and Research
Language
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Debates and Discourses
English in Europe, Volume 2
Edited by
Ramón Plo Alastrué
Carmen Pérez-Llantada
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Series preface
ThebiggestlanguagechallengeintheworldtodayisEnglish.Schoolchildrenare
expectedtolearnit,andtheneedtosucceedinEnglishisoftenfiredbyparental
ambitionandtherequirementsforentryintohighereducation,nomatterwhatthe
proposedcourseofstudy.Onceatuniversityorcollege,studentsacrosstheglobe
areincreasinglyfindingthattheirteachingisbeingdeliveredthroughthemedium
ofEnglish,makingthelearningprocessmoreonerous.Universitiesunquestion-
inglystriveforagreaterlevelofinternationalizationinteachingandinresearch,
andthisinturnequateswithgreateruseofEnglishbynon-nativespeakers.The
needtouseEnglishtosucceedinbusinessisasmuchanissueformultinational
corporationsasitisforsmalltradersintouristdestinations,andmeanwhileother
languagesareusedandstudiedlessandless.Ontheotherhand,academicpub-
lishersgetrichonthemonolingualnormoftheindustry,andprivatelanguage
teachingisitselfbigbusiness.InthemarketofEnglishtherearewinnersandthere
arelosers.
Thepicture,however,ismorecomplicatedthanonesimplyofwinnersand
losers. What varieties of English are we talking about here, and who are their
‘nativespeakers’?IstheresomethingdistinctwecanidentifyasEnglish,orisit
merelypartofarepertoireoflanguageformstobecalleduponasnecessary?Is
theloomingpresenceofEnglishanideaorareality,andinanycaseisitreally
suchaproblem,andisitreallykillingoffotherlanguagesassomecommentators
fear?IsthestatusandroleofEnglishthesameinallpartsoftheworld,ordoes
itservedifferentpurposesindifferentcontexts?Whatformsofpracticalsupport
dothosetryingtocompeteinthismarketplaceneedinordertobeamongstthe
winners?
These are all questions addressed by the English in Europe: Opportunity or
Threat?project,whichranfromJanuary2012toOctober2014.Thisinternational
researchnetworkreceivedgenerousfundingfromtheLeverhulmeTrustintheUK
and was a partnership between the universities of Sheffield (UK), Copenhagen
(Denmark)andZaragoza(Spain),CharlesUniversityinPrague(CzechRepublic)
andtheSouth-EastEuropeResearchCentreinThessaloniki(Greece).Eachofthe
partnershostedaconferenceonadifferenttopicandwithaparticularfocuson
EnglishintheirownregionofEurope.Duringthecourseoftheproject120papers
werepresented,reportingonresearchprojectsfromacrossEuropeandbeyond,
providingforthefirsttimeaproperlyinformedandnuancedpictureofthereality
oflivingwithandthroughthemediumofEnglish.
TheEnglishinEuropebookseriestakestheresearchpresentedinthesecon-
ferencesasitsstartingpoint.Ineachcase,however,papershavebeenrewritten,
vi | Seriespreface
and many of the papers have been specially commissioned to provide a series
of coherent and balanced collections, giving a thorough and authoritative pic-
tureofthechallengesposedbyteaching,studyingandusingEnglishinEurope
today.
ProfessorAndrewLinn
Director,EnglishinEuropeproject
Contents
Seriespreface|v
Listofcontributors|x
PartI: Thesocio-culturalscenario
RamónPloAlastrué
DebatesanddiscoursesonEnglishasanacademicandresearchlanguage|3
KarenBennett
Towardsanepistemologicalmonoculture:Mechanismsofepistemicide
inEuropeanresearchpublication|9
RuthBreeze
Citingoutsidethecommunity?Aninvestigationofthelanguageofbibliography
intopjournals|37
ClausGnutzmann,JennyJakisch,andFrankRabe
ResourcesforpublishinginEnglishasaforeignlanguage:Strategies,peers
andtechniques|59
MarinaBondi
Languagepolicyinweb-mediatedscientificknowledgedissemination:
Acasestudyofriskcommunicationacrossgenresandlanguages|85
PartII: Thediscoursecommunityscenario
RenataPovolná
Oncross-culturalvariationintheuseofconjunctsinresearcharticlesbyCzech
andnativespeakersofEnglish:Canconjunctscontributetotheinteractiveand
dialogiccharacterofacademictexts?|115
SoniaOliver
Spanishauthorsdealingwithhedgingorthechallengesofscholarly
publicationinEnglishL2|141
viii | Contents
JosefSchmied
AcademicwritinginEnglishincomparison:Degreeadverbs,connecting
adverbials,andcontrastive/concessivemarkersintheChemCorpusand
comparabledata-bases|159
OlgaDontcheva-Navratilova
Cross-culturalvariationincitationpractices:Acomparativeanalysisof
citationsinCzechEnglish-mediumandinternationalEnglish-medium
linguisticsjournals|185
AnaBocanegra-Valle
Peerreviewers’recommendationsforlanguageimprovementinresearch
writing|207
PartIII: Thelanguagepolicyscenario.
Englishasalinguafrancainlinguistics?
JenniferSchluer
Englishasalinguafrancainlinguistics?AcasestudyofGermanlinguists’
languageuseinpublications|233
MariaKuteeva
AcademicEnglishas“nobody’sland”:Theresearchandpublicationpracticesof
Swedishacademics|261
LauraMihaelaMuresanandMarianaNicolae
Addressingthechallengeofpublishinginternationallyinanon-Anglophone
academiccontext:Romania–acaseinpoint |281
BrankaDrljačaMargićandTeaŽeželić
TheimplementationofEnglish-mediuminstructioninCroatianhigher
education:Attitudes,expectationsandconcerns|311
JoannaLewińska
TeachingEnglishasaLinguaFrancainamultilingualenvironment:
Theevaluationofnativeandnon-nativeteachersofEnglishbyPolishuniversity
students|333
Contents | ix
CarmenPérez-Llantada
TeasingoutthetensionsbetweenEnglishmonolingualismvs.plurilingualism
inEuropeanacademicandresearchsettings|353
Index|363
List of Contributors
KarenBennett MarianaNicolae
UniversidadeNovadeLisboa,Portugal AcademiadeStudiiEconomicedin
Bucureşti,Romania
AnaBocanegra-Valle
UniversidaddeCádiz,Spain SoniaOliver
UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona,
MarinaBondi
Spain
UniversitádegliStudydiModenae
ReggioEmilia,Italy CarmenPérez-Llantada
UniversidaddeZaragoza,Spain
RuthBreeze
UniversidaddeNavarra,Spain RamónPloAlastrué
UniversidaddeZaragoza,Spain
OlgaDontcheva-Navratilova
Masarykovauniverzita,Brno, RenataPovolná
CzechRepublic Masarykovauniverzita,Brno,
CzechRepublic
ClausGnutzmann
TechnischeUniversität,Braunschweig, FrankRabe
Germany TechnischeUniversität,Braunschweig,
Germany
JennyJakisch
TechnischeUniversität,Braunschweig, JenniferSchluer
Germany UniversitätKassel,Germany
MariaKuteeva JosefSchmied
Stockholmsuniversitet,Sweden TechnischeUniversitätChemnitz,
Germany
JoannaLewińska
WszechnicaPolska,Warsaw,Poland TeaŽeželić
SveučilišteuRijeci,Croatia
BrankaDrljačaMargić
SveučilišteuRijeci,Croatia
Laura-MihaelaMuresan
AcademiadeStudiiEconomicedin
Bucureşti,Romania