Acknowledging or denying membership
Reviewers’ responses to non-anglophone scientists’ manuscripts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Englander (0000-0003-1533-5666, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, corresponding author), Guadalupe López-Bonilla (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Guadalupe López Bonilla (0000-0002-8497-7665, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-416 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445611403261 |
| OpenAlex | W2004971556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
Publishing scientific articles is a crucial activity performed by a scientist to demonstrate inclusion as part of the community of scientists: a community constituted by journal editors, reviewers, authors and readers. A manuscript submitted to journals is first read by reviewers, and their decision to accept it creates membership in the community for the author with its attendant privileges of ingroup status. Rejection bars such membership. In this article we examine the language used by this powerful individual — the journal reviewer — to recognize another individual — the author — as being a member or not. Five reviewer reports of two different manuscripts submitted by non-native English-speaking authors are analyzed in this case study. Complementary discourse analytical approaches are used: group ideology, syntactic structure and personal pronouns. The analysis of the linguistic strategies used reveals three distinct positions that the reviewers adopt within this under-researched genre
Ideology · Ingroups and outgroups · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Una mirada analítica a la enseñanza de la escritura en posgrado
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Research Genres
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Seeking acceptance in an English-only research world
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You can’t’ but ‘I do
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |