Occupying Niches Interculturality Crossculturality And Aculturality In Academic Research 1st Edition Andrzej Yda by Andrzej Łyda, Krystyna Warchał (auth.), Andrzej Łyda, Krystyna Warchał (eds.) 9783319025254, 9783319025261, 3319025252, 3319025260 instant download after payment.

This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four sections: Expert writers, Novice writers and readers, Conference participants, and Non-research academic genres. The book explicitly addresses and is centred upon the concept of a research niche understood as a space to be captured and populated, as a temporary location to move or grow out of in the course of individual professional development from novice to expert, and as a space to consciously reach beyond, delimited by one’s linguistic, cultural, educational, and geopolitical background. Here the niche is approached as a frame of reference for discussion of what is culture-bound, culture-sensitive, and culture-free in the academic community and its practices.