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

[Monte Davis]

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/07/the-american-historical-association-sa
ys-we-need-to-keep-people-from-reading-history-dissertations.html

see also my comment,  #8


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Of alice wellintown
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:33 AM
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Subject: Re: English "the language with all the modern improvements" (James)

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
>