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Título: Issues with publishing abstracts in english: challenges for portuguese linguists’ authorial voices
Autor: Santos, Joana Vieira; Silva, Paulo Nunes da
Resumo: This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese
Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus
of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and
links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data
show signs of a “Portuguese identity” in authors’ voices such as personal forms, move signaling, long
sentences, profuse embedding, heavy subjects, and variations in content selection, but also signs of
standard academic guideline-indexed choices in impersonal forms, template sentences, coordinated
constituents, nominalizations, and conventional text plans. Standard genre models and writing
features from “core” academic communities coexist with alternative and traditional ways of writing
and of disseminating knowledge, which is typical of a semiperipheral non-native English-speaking
community torn between conflicting language and cultural paradigms. These contrasting tendencies
are linked to identity changes within the community, as APL authors try to achieve international
recognition by publishing abstracts in English as a Foreign Language. Since the APL research
topic is the Portuguese language, the process mirrors the authors’ struggle between standard
internationalization in English and individual stance in Portuguese.
Autor: Santos, Joana Vieira; Silva, Paulo Nunes da
Resumo: This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese
Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus
of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and
links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data
show signs of a “Portuguese identity” in authors’ voices such as personal forms, move signaling, long
sentences, profuse embedding, heavy subjects, and variations in content selection, but also signs of
standard academic guideline-indexed choices in impersonal forms, template sentences, coordinated
constituents, nominalizations, and conventional text plans. Standard genre models and writing
features from “core” academic communities coexist with alternative and traditional ways of writing
and of disseminating knowledge, which is typical of a semiperipheral non-native English-speaking
community torn between conflicting language and cultural paradigms. These contrasting tendencies
are linked to identity changes within the community, as APL authors try to achieve international
recognition by publishing abstracts in English as a Foreign Language. Since the APL research
topic is the Portuguese language, the process mirrors the authors’ struggle between standard
internationalization in English and individual stance in Portuguese.
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Título: Issues with publishing abstracts in english: challenges for portuguese linguists’ authorial voices Autor: Santos, Joana Vieira; Silva, Paulo Nunes da Resumo: This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show signs of a “Portuguese identity” in authors’ voices such as personal forms, move signaling, long sentences, profuse embedding, heavy subjects, and variations in content selection, but also signs of standard academic guideline-indexed choices in impersonal forms, template sentences, coordinated constituents, nominalizations, and conventional text plans. Standard genre models and writing features from “core” academic communities coexist with alternative and traditional ways of writing and of disseminating knowledge, which is typical of a semiperipheral non-native English-speaking community torn between conflicting language and cultural paradigms. These contrasting tendencies are linked to identity changes within the community, as APL authors try to achieve international recognition by publishing abstracts in English as a Foreign Language. Since the APL research topic is the Portuguese language, the process mirrors the authors’ struggle between standard internationalization in English and individual stance in Portuguese.
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