Description
Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Second Language Learning and Teaching Series
Coordinators: Łyda Andrzej, Warchał Krystyna
Language: EnglishSubject for Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality...:
Publication date: 08-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 01-2014
234 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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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.