Acknowledging or denying membership: Reviewers’ responses to non-anglophone scientists’ manuscripts  

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Englander, Karen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 4 (Aug. 2011), page 395-416.
Topik: deixis; Discourse; discourse community; ideology; indexicality; non-native English-speakers; occluded genres; pronouns; referees; scientific publishing
Fulltext: p. 395–416.pdf (300.71KB)

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Publishing scientific articles is a crucial activity performed by a scientist to demonstrate inclusion as part of the community of scientists: a community constituted by journal editors, reviewers, authors and readers. A manuscript submitted to journals is first read by reviewers, and their decision to accept it creates membership in the community for the author with its attendant privileges of ingroup status. Rejection bars such membership. In this article we examine the language used by this powerful individual – the journal reviewer – to recognize another individual – the author – as being a member or not. Five reviewer reports of two different manuscripts submitted by non-native English-speaking authors are analyzed in this case study. Complementary discourse analytical approaches are used: group ideology, syntactic structure and personal pronouns. The analysis of the linguistic strategies used reveals three distinct positions that the reviewers adopt within this under-researched genre.

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