Academic Book Reviews: Who’s Writing and Citing What in Linguistics?
From narrating to informing to evaluating, academic book reviews are an important contribution to the scholarly world. While the review of a book written for popular consumption can impact its success, the academic book review enables authors and readers to engage in a dialogue concerning the merits...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2024-0001 |
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| Summary: | From narrating to informing to evaluating, academic book reviews are an important contribution to the scholarly world. While the review of a book written for popular consumption can impact its success, the academic book review enables authors and readers to engage in a dialogue concerning the merits of a given work and areas for improvement or expansion through subsequent research. This paper explores over four-thousand book reviews published over an almost thirty-year period on The LINGUIST List, recognizing the reviewing ‘landscape,’ the reviewers’ qualifications, the temporal distance between publication of the book and its review, and the usage of external references. |
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| ISSN: | 2286-0428 |