English "the language with all the modern improvements" (James)

[alice wellintown]

Why peer review has declined in quantity and quality is, of course,
complicated by the industry that controls publication as well.

http://chronicle.com/article/We-Must-Stop-the-Avalanche-of/65890/

http://www.nber.org/papers/w13272



On 7/24/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I noted previously that the decline in both the quantity and quality
> of peer reviewed articles is owed to many factors, and that most of
> these are having positive as well as negative effects on education
> generally, on scholarship and research, and writing acroos the
> disciplines.  As stated, the cross currents, the convergence of
> disciplines, the international exchanges, the globalization of ideas
> that are part of the larger international and global forces in
> politics, economics, culture have an influence on academic traditions
> and methods and these cross-fertilization have been greatly
> accelerated recently. These exchanges are not new, but with modern and
> post-modern developments, particulary in technologies, the world is
> "flatter" and the "web" of ideas larger, perhaps less rigid and less
> fragile. Two examples are the huge influence of America an American
> English. A more recent one is the huge influence of China.  Put these
> two great forces together, consider one fact, that In China students
> must pass an English exam, and  "English Mania" has set in, and we
> begin to see how the language that we read in academic journals is
> influenced by forces on a global scale.
>
> So we can't ignore the ESL, the  L2, L3 influence.
>
> And, we can't ignore that fact that American English is also in great
> flux as its speakers, its regional languages are shifting: Check out
> "Do You Speak American", a PBS Program that looks into how Americans
> speak and how they view the language.
>
>
>
>   http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html
>