Interactions With Literacy Brokers in the Production of English-Medium Texts
Interactions With Literacy Brokers in the Production of English-Medium Texts
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在英语文本制作中与扫盲经纪人的互动
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2005
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M. Curry
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作者：
T. Lillis;M. Curry
世界各地的学者面临着越来越大的压力，要求他们以英语为媒介发表他们的研究成果。然而，很少有实证研究探索英语的全球溢价如何影响在英语国家以外工作的学者的学术文本产出。这篇文章借鉴了匈牙利、斯洛伐克、西班牙和葡萄牙心理学学者的一项以文本为导向的人种学纵向研究，以跟踪从当地研究和写作背景到英语媒体出版物的文本轨迹。我们的发现表明，参与这类文本生产的相当多的调解人，即“扫盲经纪人”，以不同和重要的方式影响着文本。我们用宽泛的术语说明了英语出版物中扫盲中介的性质和范围，并描述和例证了经纪人的不同取向。我们通过关注三个文本历史，探索在一组特定的英语媒体出版物--在英语媒体国际期刊上撰写和发表的文章--的生产中明显存在什么样的中介作用。最后，我们讨论了对经纪业务的关注可以告诉我们围绕学术知识生产的做法。
Scholars around the world are under increasing pressure to publish their research in the medium of English. However, little empirical research has explored how the global premium of English influences the academic text production of scholars working outside of English-speaking countries. This article draws on a longitudinal text-oriented ethnographic study of psychology scholars in Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, and Portugal to follow the trajectories of texts from local research and writing contexts to English-medium publications. Our findings indicate that a significant number of mediators, “literacy brokers,” who are involved in the production of such texts, influence the texts in different and important ways. We illustrate in broad terms the nature and extent of literacy brokering in English-medium publications and characterize and exemplify brokers’different orientations. We explore what kind of brokering is evident in the production of a specific group of English-medium publications—articles written and published in English-medium international journals—by focusing on three text histories. We conclude by discussing what a focus on brokering can tell us about practices surrounding academic knowledge production.