The English language in academia: Identifying power structures, denaturalizing daily choices. ECREA 2018 special panel report

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https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2019.02.007

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Media and communication research has been dominated by the Anglo-American paradigm and English has become the lingua franca of academic life. The 2018 ECREA conference focused on centres and peripheries, inclusions and exclusions, cores and margins in the field. In line with the programme, this special session on Language in Academia tried to respond to contemporary critical asymmetries, analysing a specific dimension often taken for granted: the English language hegemony. The centrality of the English language is often assumed without questioning or critical reasoning.

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2020-02-02

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Sousa, H. (2019). The English language in academia: Identifying power structures, denaturalizing daily choices. ECREA 2018 special panel report. Studies in Communication Sciences, 19(2), 217–220. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2019.02.007

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Vol. 19 No. 2: Studies in Communication Sciences

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