Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research

Andrzej Lyda (Curatore)

Krystyna Warchal (Curatore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2016

This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four sections: Expert writers, Novice writers and readers, Conference participants, and Non-research academic genres. The book explicitly addresses and is centred upon the concept of a research niche understood as a space to be captured and populated, as a temporary location to move or grow out of in the course of individual professional development from novice to expert, and as a space to consciously reach beyond, delimited by one’s linguistic, cultural, educational, and geopolitical background. Here the niche is approached as a frame of reference for discussion of what is culture-bound, culture-sensitive, and culture-free in the academic community and its practices.

• Curatore: Andrzej Lyda, Krystyna Warchal
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 234 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783319379326

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