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Tradition and difference: can mainstream academic discourse in A pplied L inguistics ever change?
Author(s) -
Jordao Clarissa Menezes
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12088
Subject(s) - mainstream , dictatorship , the imaginary , field (mathematics) , sociology , media studies , political science , psychology , law , politics , mathematics , pure mathematics , democracy , psychotherapist
This text is a response to some European‐oriented journals in the field of E nglish language teaching who reject submissions on the basis of their particular use of academic discourse. It is therefore deeply indebted to some open‐minded editors and some narrow‐minded reviewers who functioned as my imaginary interlocutors. I hope it can inspire more academics to struggle against the dictatorship of traditional journals and their dictatorial ways to control language. From my experience growing up in the 1970's in B razil, I learned to feel strongly about freedom of expression: enough of totalitarian regimes.