Lillis, T., D. Hewings, D. Vladimirou and M.J. Curry. 2010. ‘The geolinguistics of English as an academic Lingua Franca: citation practices across English medium national and English medium international journals’. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20/1: 111-135
Summary: This article explores how the global status of English is influencing knowledge production and circulation, focusing on citations in English medium national and English medium international journal articles. Drawing on text, ethnographic and corpus data from a longitudinal study in four national contexts, we argue that citation practices vary significantly along geolinguistic lines which are highly consequential.
Country of research: various
Learners' background: various
Entered by: The Open University (Faculty of Education and Languages)
Hewings, A., T. Lillis and D. Vladimirou. 2010. ‘Who's citing whose writings? A corpus-based study of citations as interpersonal resource in English medium national and English medium international journals’. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 9: 102-115
Summary: The paper draws on a 1.5 million word corpus of published psychology articles and uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to explore the citation practices in English medium articles of scholars working in non-Anglophone contexts.
Country of research: various
Learners' background: various
Institutional level: tertiary
Entered by: The Open University (Faculty of Education and Languages)