The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing

1. Introduction: The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Academic Practice: The ‘Semiperiphery’ as a Category for Social and Linguistic Analysis
Karen Bennett

Part I. Discourses in Tension

2. The Erosion of Portuguese Historiographic Discourse
Karen Bennett

3. The Changing Face of Czech Academic Discourse
Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova

4. Academic Discourse Practices in Greece: Exploring the ‘International Conference of Greek Linguistics’
Dimitra Vladimirou

5. Teaching Academic Writing for the Global World in Poland: The ELF Perspective
Anna Gonerko-Frej

Part II. Communities in Conflict

6. Centre-Periphery Relations in the Spanish Context: Temporal and Cross-Disciplinary Variation
Sally Burgess

7. Portuguese Academics’ Attitudes to English as the Academic Lingua Franca: A Case-Study
Rita Queiroz Barros

8. Changing Research Writing Practices in Romania: Perceptions and Attitudes
Mirela Bardi, Laura-Mihaela Muresan

9. Looking Back from the Centre: Experiences of Italian Humanities Scholars Living and Writing Abroad
Raffaella Negretti

Part III. Publication Practices

10. Turkish Academic Culture in Transition: Centre-Based State Policies and Semiperipheral Practices of Research, Publishing and Promotion
Hacer Hande Uysal

11. English-Medium Journals in Serbia: Editors’ Perspectives
Bojana Petrić

12. The Croatian Medical Journal: Success and Consequences
Matko Marušić, Ana Marušić

13. The Academic Weblog as a Semiperipheral Genre
Małgorzata Sokół

14. Conclusion: Combating the Centripetal Pull in Academic Writing
Karen Bennett

Nyckelord: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Teaching