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Contemporary Academia in Transformation

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This chapter accounts for patterns in contemporary language use in publishing and focuses particularly on the effects of neoliberal research policies, which impinge upon the contemporary university field. This is done with a view to foregrounding recent trends in research management that define the preconditions for publishing practices in Swedish academia, such as an increased focus on internationalization and accountability . The chapter outlines a number of sociolinguistic consequences that arise from contemporary research policies, and the measures used to enforce this vision. The chapter points to some of the ways in which performance-based evaluation on the basis of publication and citation measures is used as an instrument in the distribution of research funding, and argues that this managerial regime is unfavorable for Swedish-language publishing practices.

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Salö, L. (2017). Contemporary Academia in Transformation. In: The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58940-4_5

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