Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context
Covenors:
- Dr Ju Chuan Huang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
- Dr Catalina Neculai, Coventry University, UK
Scope (400 words):
This AILA network has been dedicated to the field of research and practice that examines writing, presenting, and publishing academic research. The field has grown in parallel to the increasing pressure in a range of geolinguistic contexts for multilingual or plurilingual scholars (Englander & Corcoran, 2019; Corcoran, 2019) and graduate students not only to publish, but often to publish in English as well as in high-status indexed journals. Although many multilingual/plurilingual scholars are committed to continuing to publish in local national and regional languages, publishing in English generally brings not only prestige but also material rewards such as salary and promotion. For many scholars, not publishing in English can have severe negative consequences; yet, publishing in English often requires the dedication of extra resources in terms of time, effort, and money, and can act as a barrier to scholars achieving their intellectual and political interests.
Alongside the growth of English as a global language more generally, the conditions listed above support the need for continued research on scholarly publishing and presenting in English and other national or local languages, as well as the production of related texts such as reviews, grant applications, theses/dissertations, and how these genres function in terms of knowledge construction and dissemination. There is also a continuing need for research on scholars publishing in local, regional and other languages and their interests and challenges in doing so in the face of the pressures to publish in English. There is also need for continued research into the practices and actors (aka, developers, “brokers”, pedagogues) who work with researchers on their research and knowledge production and dissemination.
Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context has successfully involved researchers and practitioners from a wide range of geopolitical and geolinguistic locations who are interested in exploring the many facets of this phenomenon as well as proposing possible responses, both in research and practical terms. Researchers in this area employ a variety of applied linguistics methodologies, from systemic functional and text linguistics to corpus linguistics and ethnographic methods. There is also increasing transdisciplinary work from cultural studies, racial and decolonial studies, human geography, gender studies, that complements an applied linguistic focus.
Highlight of 3 scientific ReN works during the previous period:
- Lillis, T., & Curry, M. J. (2022). The dynamics of academic knowledge making in a multilingual world: Chronotopes of production. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 3(1), 109–142. https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.22002.lil
- Li, Y., & Flowerdew, J. (2023). Chinese attitudes to plagiarism: A genre analysis of editorial statements on plagiarism cases (1950s-1960s). Ethics & Behavior, 33(7), 579-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2022.2111307
- Nygaard, L. P., Piro, F. N., & Aksnes, D. W. (2022). Gendering excellence through research productivity indicators. Gender and Education, 34(6), 690–704. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2041186
Some members:
- Ju Chuan, Huang,National Taiwan Ocean University (Taiwan)
- Catalina Neculai, Coventry university (UK)
- Yongyan Li, Hong Kong University (Hong Kong)
- Theron Muller, Waseda University (Japan)
- Alaa Salem, Waseda University (Japan)
- Pascal Patrick Matzler, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile)
- Xiatinghan Xu, University of Rochester
- Cheryl L. Sheridan, National ChengChi University
- Emmanuel Manalo, Kyoto University
- Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, University of Iceland
- Mary Jane Curry, University of Rochester
- Theresa Lillis, The Open University
- Sally Burgess, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
- James Corcoran, York University, Canada
- Rui Yang, University of Hong Kong, China
- John Flowerdew, Lancaster University
- Karen Englander, University of Toronto
- Margaret Cargill, University of Adelaide