Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research
Author | : Andrzej Łyda |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319025261 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319025260 |
Rating | : 4/5 (260 Downloads) |
Download or read book Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research written by Andrzej Łyda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.