English: lingua franca or disenfranchising?

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Abstract

Conceiving academic publishing as a long-term process that often includes oral communication and knowledge exchange at academic conferences, this commentary offers a critical take on English as lingua franca. Contrarily to the historical use of lingua franca as a simplified system of transnational communication that facilitates the pragmatics of economic and cultural exchange, academic English is instead used vernacularly and becomes an excluding barrier. In the writing and peer review stages of publishing, the linguistic positionality of both authors and peer reviewers thus needs more reflection in order for academic English not to become once again part of a disenfranchising process.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)194–196.
JournalFennia
Volume195
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2017

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