Acknowledging or denying membership: Reviewers' responses to non-anglophone scientists' manuscripts

Discourse Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-416

  Englander, Karen ^a   López Bonilla, Guadalupe ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

deixis; Discourse; discourse community; ideology; indexicality; non native English speakers; occluded genres; pronouns; referees; scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960788215     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445611403261     Document Type: Review

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