Multilingualism in academic writing for publication

Putting English in its place

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ID11438439
AutoresMary Jane Curry (0000-0002-0725-149X, University of Rochester, autor de correspondencia), Theresa Lillis (0000-0001-7584-3772, The Open University)
Año2024
Volumen57
Número1
Páginas87-100
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage Teaching (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-4448 • E-ISSN: 1475-3049
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261444822000040
OpenAlexW4226415765
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas65

We are living in an era characterized by multilingualism, global mobility, superdiversity (Blommaert, 2010), and digital communications. Mobility and multilingualism, however, have long characterized most geolinguistic contexts, including those where monolingual ideologies have influenced the formation of contemporary nation states (Cenoz, 2013). As language is a pillar of both curriculum and instruction, in many academic spaces around the world efforts are on the rise to acknowledge the colonial origins of English, decenter the dominance of Standard English(es), and decolonize knowledge production (e.g., Bhambra et al., 2018; de Sousa Santos, 2017). Additionally, many ‘inner circle’ (Kachru, 2001) Anglophone contexts have long witnessed the centrifugal forces of multilingualism. Yet what prevails in institutional academic contexts is a centripetal pull toward what has been captured in phrases such as ‘linguistic mononormativity’ (Blommaert & Horner, 2017) or ‘Anglonormativity’ (McKinney, 2017). Nowhere is this pull more evident than in the sphere of writing for publication, relentlessly construed as an ‘English Only’ space, as exemplified in Elnathan's (2021) claim in the journal Nature : ‘English is the international language of science, for better or for worse.’

Dominance (genetics · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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