Japan-based language teachers writing for academic publication: Exploring practices and experiences (original) (raw)

Abstract

This presentation will draw on data from a larger project investigating the experiences of language teachers based in Japan, both Japanese and non-Japanese, who are relatively new to writing for academic publication as they seek to publish their work. The presentation will focus on email interaction between authors and “literacy brokers” (Lillis & Curry, 2006, p. 3) during the process of negotiating editorial changes to manuscripts as they move through submission, review, and revision. Editorial norms and expectations regarding the genre of the submission letter to the editor were first examined by Swales (1996) from a discourse analysis perspective, focusing on defining and describing genre norms. While such investigations have led to a number of insights regarding the structure and organization of academic texts, how interaction between editor and author comes to be locally constructed between particular interlocutors has not been investigated in detail to date. Research into how manuscripts have been altered as a result of of the editorial review process has shown the significant impact review and editing have on published manuscripts (see, for example, Lillis & Curry, 2010), but how authors and editors negotiate and mediate these changes remains largely “occluded” (Swales, 1996, p. 46). In order to examine the co-construction of the editor-author relationship, this presentation will share analysis of interactions between Japan-based Anglophone and non-Anglophone scholars and their editors surrounding submission of their manuscripts for publication. Analysis will concentrate on how the relationship is constructed and negotiated, how roles and responsibilities are assigned, and the analytical models available for examining such interaction. Preliminary analysis suggests that Habermas’ system versus lifeworld dichotomy may be at play in at least some of the interactions, with rhetorical movement between formation of social relationships and addressing the technical process of revision and editor-author expectations regarding the progression of manuscripts from submission to publication or rejection.

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