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Conference Paper: Anecdote, attitude and evidence. Does English disadvantage EAL authors in international publishing?
Title | Anecdote, attitude and evidence. Does English disadvantage EAL authors in international publishing? |
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Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES). |
Citation | Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) International Conference - FACES OF ENGLISH: THEORY, PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY, Hong Kong, 11-13 June 2015 How to Cite? |
Abstract | One face of English, or Englishes, is that used to publish in international journals. Indeed, writing in English is now more than a choice of language; with globalization and growing managerialism in Higher Education, it has come to designate research of a high quality worthy of a place in peer-reviewed journals. Accompanying this dominance of English, however, are questions of communicative inequality and the possible disadvantages or even prejudice inflicted on non-Anglophone academics. In this paper I critically examine the evidence for linguistic disadvantage by a review of global publishing patterns, author attitudes, case studies and research into linguistic advantage together with my own interviews with EAL scholars in HK and analysis of journal peer reviews. I show that while there is plenty of anecdotal evidence for disadvantage, framing this in terms of a coarse native/non-native distinction has serious problems and may serve to discourage non-Anglophone authors and perpetuate a deficit view of their writing. The disciplinary conventions of disciplinary writing in English make serious demands on all academic writers, but these are less important than a lack of resources and research writing expertise. So while a hindering factor in getting published, language is not a terminally decisive one. |
Description | Keynote Sessions |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/252570 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Hyland, KL | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-25T07:54:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-25T07:54:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) International Conference - FACES OF ENGLISH: THEORY, PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY, Hong Kong, 11-13 June 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/252570 | - |
dc.description | Keynote Sessions | - |
dc.description.abstract | One face of English, or Englishes, is that used to publish in international journals. Indeed, writing in English is now more than a choice of language; with globalization and growing managerialism in Higher Education, it has come to designate research of a high quality worthy of a place in peer-reviewed journals. Accompanying this dominance of English, however, are questions of communicative inequality and the possible disadvantages or even prejudice inflicted on non-Anglophone academics. In this paper I critically examine the evidence for linguistic disadvantage by a review of global publishing patterns, author attitudes, case studies and research into linguistic advantage together with my own interviews with EAL scholars in HK and analysis of journal peer reviews. I show that while there is plenty of anecdotal evidence for disadvantage, framing this in terms of a coarse native/non-native distinction has serious problems and may serve to discourage non-Anglophone authors and perpetuate a deficit view of their writing. The disciplinary conventions of disciplinary writing in English make serious demands on all academic writers, but these are less important than a lack of resources and research writing expertise. So while a hindering factor in getting published, language is not a terminally decisive one. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES). | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) International Conference | - |
dc.title | Anecdote, attitude and evidence. Does English disadvantage EAL authors in international publishing? | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Hyland, KL: khyland@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Hyland, KL=rp01133 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 249039 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |