Language and the Knowledge Economy

Josep Soler is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Kathrin Kaufhold is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Contents

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List of Contributors

1. Language, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge economy in multilingual Europe: Exploring interconnections

Josep Soler and Kathrin Kaufhold

Part I Conditions for academic knowledge production

2. Knowledge production and consumption in British academia

Sharon McCulloch

3. The political economy of linguistic capital: The Dutch case of academic scholarship

Renë Gabriels and Robert Wilkinson

Part II Challenges for multilingual scholars

4. (Re)drawing the line: Deficit and empowerment in articles on writing research from Central and Eastern Europe

Clauda Dorobolschi and Loredana Bercuci

5. The language of contemporary philosophy

Filippo Contesi

6. What moves with us when we move? Possible Future Academic Selves in trajectories of exile

Baraa Khuder and Bojana Petrić

7. Academics’ legitimacy and self-worth: Exploring connections between English, professional identity, and neoliberal trends in Italian academia

Beatrice Zuaro

Part III Institutional regimes in the knowledge economy

8. Multilingualism is important for all fields of science: Evidence from Finland and Poland

Janne Pölönen and Emanuel Kulczycki

9. Problematising academic journals’ evaluation systems: A case-study approach to sociolinguistics databases indexing for medium-sized languages

Maria Sabaté-Dalmau and Natxo Sorolla

10. English and academic publishing: Capitalist endeavours, colonial entanglements, and knowledge production

Miguel Pérez-Milans, Kathrin Kaufhold and Josep Soler

11. For metascience – a postscript

Linus Salö

Index