{"title":"Algorithmic power and scientific knowledge","authors":"Inês Signorini","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00044.sig","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00044.sig","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper critically revisits traditional perspectives on technology within academic and scientific writing\u0000 studies. It aims to comprehend the intricate, emerging, and dynamic sociotechnical configurations that underlie contemporary\u0000 scientific practices. These practices increasingly involve language, text, and literacy practices, seen as products of the\u0000 collaboration between humans and machines. The paper draws on empirical research on influential institutional metadiscourses in\u0000 high-impact scientific writing produced and/or disseminated by public universities and a research institute in the State of São\u0000 Paulo (Brazil), whose local policies of globalization are driven by international university rankings. I use a qualitative content\u0000 analysis approach grounded in socio-anthropological, socio-semiotic, and pragmatic studies of linguistic ideologies to shed light\u0000 on how ideological and socio-semiotic processes support the metapragmatics of scientific writing in university policy documents.\u0000 This metapragmatics is utterly alien to the role of performative sociotechnical infrastructures in the production, distribution,\u0000 and hierarchization of scientific texts. Additionally, these documents do not account for the diverse conditions and restrictions\u0000 that shape the production and circulation of academic knowledge in geopolitically marginal and equally diverse regions within the\u0000 country, including those within São Paulo.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"78 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140087348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘But we’re among peers!’","authors":"Thomas Veret","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00043.ver","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00043.ver","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Focusing on French social science and humanities journals, this article examines the digital communication\u0000 surrounding the submission of articles by scholars based in Africa. Using Cameron’s concept of verbal hygiene ([1995] 2012), I analyze the case of negative reactions from editors triggered by\u0000 stylistic and rhetorical features related to politeness. Through a detailed case study, the paper shows that such negative\u0000 reactions involve semiotic processes of linguistic and social differentiation that articulate the moralized persona of the author\u0000 and the scientific value of his/her work. However, editors’ verbal hygiene attitudes are also intertwined with political concerns\u0000 aimed at promoting the inclusion of scholars from the Global South. In that context, the analysis reveals a complex interplay\u0000 between the desire for openness and structural patterns of exclusion that enact long-standing hierarchies in knowledge production.\u0000 Drawing on Inoue’s (2003) theory of the listening subject, I argue that this paradox\u0000 arises from the reader’s particular position within the globalized academic landscape and from the power structures inherent in\u0000 the circulation of texts between African and French academic contexts.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"14 13-14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140441739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeking access. Applied ethnopoetic analysis","authors":"Áine McAllister","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00042.mca","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00042.mca","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper discusses a poetic output of a research project at the intersection of linguistic ethnography (LE) and\u0000 poetic inquiry (PI) which explores the barriers experienced by refugee and asylum seekers, seeking access to Higher Education. The\u0000 research draws on Jan Blommaert’s applied ethnopoetics (AEP) work to reconstruct silenced voices (Blommaert, 2006). AEP as a ‘means of recognition’ of marginalised voices is explored. The paper goes on\u0000 to explore the transformative possibilities for knowledge production offered by combining AEP with PI. This innovative approach\u0000 and output are presented as act of resistance to normative expectations within academia which freeze conditions for voice (Blommaert, 2008). Questions are then offered to consider how we might advance the\u0000 approach and its emancipatory potential further.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"226 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeking access. Applied ethnopoetic analysis","authors":"Áine McAllister","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00042.mca","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00042.mca","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper discusses a poetic output of a research project at the intersection of linguistic ethnography (LE) and\u0000 poetic inquiry (PI) which explores the barriers experienced by refugee and asylum seekers, seeking access to Higher Education. The\u0000 research draws on Jan Blommaert’s applied ethnopoetics (AEP) work to reconstruct silenced voices (Blommaert, 2006). AEP as a ‘means of recognition’ of marginalised voices is explored. The paper goes on\u0000 to explore the transformative possibilities for knowledge production offered by combining AEP with PI. This innovative approach\u0000 and output are presented as act of resistance to normative expectations within academia which freeze conditions for voice (Blommaert, 2008). Questions are then offered to consider how we might advance the\u0000 approach and its emancipatory potential further.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"44 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The copycat paradigm","authors":"Aurora Donzelli","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00041.don","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00041.don","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article describes how the copycat implementation of foreign protocols of assessment is transforming the\u0000 production of knowledge within the Italian social sciences. Focusing on the gatekeeping process whereby the national agency for\u0000 the evaluation of university research (ANVUR) publishes yearly lists of “Class‑A” journals, my analysis draws on interviews,\u0000 first-hand observations, my own experience as a returning migrant-scholar, as well as comparisons with historical Italian\u0000 journals. My aim is twofold: on the one hand, I reflect on the parallel misrecognition of scale and context underlying neoliberal\u0000 capitalism; on the other hand, I describe the paradoxes of excellence and the forms of reflexive alienation engendered by the\u0000 contemporary knowledge economy.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140488738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasia Stavridou, Hai-yen Huang, Kim Schoofs, S. Schnurr, Dorien Van De Mieroop
{"title":"Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Anastasia Stavridou, Hai-yen Huang, Kim Schoofs, S. Schnurr, Dorien Van De Mieroop","doi":"10.1075/lcs.22010.sta","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.22010.sta","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist incidents during semi-structured research interviews. These processes are closely linked to various identities which are sometimes projected upon them and often take the form of the Standardised Relational Pair of victim and perpetrator. Our analysis illustrates the complexities of these multi-directional othering processes which span a continuum from merely acknowledging to challenging and rejecting. Findings not only contribute to current conceptualisations of othering, but also give a voice to those who are othered and demonstrate that they can be powerful agents who may find ways of speaking up and re-claiming agency rather than silently accepting the victim identities that are often assigned to them.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121956040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modern ancient Chinese","authors":"Yan Jia","doi":"10.1075/lcs.22025.jia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.22025.jia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article adopts the notions of chronotope and scalar intimacy to discuss collective identification, in\u0000 particular Hanfu identity among Chinese youth in the context of contemporary Chinese nationalism. Drawing upon\u0000 ethnographic interviews and observations of self-identified Hanfu fans in Beijing, China, this paper analyzes how\u0000 they, through invoking and shifting back and forth across multiple spatiotemporal scales, discursively enact collective and\u0000 intimate identification among individuals, among Hanfu fan groups (on a local scale), and the general Chinese\u0000 population (on a larger, national scale). This paper suggests that the great ancient China chronotope (GACC) has played a crucial\u0000 role in establishing continuity between the present (or other time-spaces) and the ‘past,’ ultimately legitimizing the inseparable\u0000 link between Hanfu groups and collectives and solidifying great China and collective identity ideologies. It also\u0000 demonstrates that modern Chinese youth are internalizing the Chinese nationalist ideology in order to establish a sociocultural\u0000 relationship of belonging to and sharing with Chinese collectives as a way to empower themselves to cope with uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128351964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Granola Nazis and the great reset","authors":"Catherine Tebaldi","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00036.teb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00036.teb","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper analyzes the naturalization of Nazism, through semiotic processes of enregisterment, circulation, and regimentation of the register “nature-tradition” associated with a characterological figure I term the Granola Nazi. Granola Nazi is assembled through a rhematized set of semiotic elements, images, practices and forms of talk, which have come to indicate socially typified personae – strong virile white farmers, traditional earthy homesteading moms – and the moral order they embody. Using linguistic anthropological and digital methods, this analysis draws on 885 Instagram accounts as well as linked data from YouTube and print media (i.e. cookbooks, diet advice), to explore how the worlds of far right neo-folkish movement intersect with discourses of health and wellness, creating moralized discourses of “natural beauty” and “folk vitality” which naturalize far- right racial hierarchies. This is at once a co-option of discourses of health and environment, but also one which reveals the how the naturalization of Nazism is made possible by racism and sexism in long present in liberal talk about nature, beauty or wellness.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115270947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mojtaba Soleimani Karizmeh, Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri
{"title":"Researching ideologies","authors":"Mojtaba Soleimani Karizmeh, Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri","doi":"10.1075/lcs.00037.kar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00037.kar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Previous critical studies of language textbook analysis have explored politics of content selection in textbooks,\u0000 examining the way selection of certain materials instead of others or the interaction between various multimodal contents selected\u0000 for textbooks reinforces certain ideological meanings at the expense of certain others. The current study views language textbooks\u0000 through lenses of politics of content creation, analyzing such politics in a series of English as a Foreign Language textbooks\u0000 produced by Iranian Ministry of Education. Using a theoretical framework that draws on theories of language ideology and social\u0000 semiotic theories of multimodality, the study explores the way ideological meanings are simultaneously created at different orders\u0000 of language and the way such created meanings multimodally shape different contents of the textbooks, such as lessons and learning\u0000 activities. The study contributes to the filed of critical language textbook analysis by uncovering the relation between power and\u0000 ideologies within the generic structure of language textbooks.","PeriodicalId":252896,"journal":{"name":"Language, Culture and Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123894736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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