Josep Soler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Josep Soler plays a role.
Articles
2024 Linguistic domination or discrimination? Local and international academic staff contest the (in)justice of English as the language of international academic mobility English-medium instruction: Different stakeholders and conflicting interests, Wilkinson, Robert and René Gabriëls (eds.), pp. 11–29 | Article
This article analyses some of the linguistic tensions derived from international academic mobility in English-medium instruction multilingual university contexts, focusing on local and international academic staff’s interests from a linguistic justice viewpoint. Firstly, we develop a normative… read more
2023 (Im)possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy Manufacturing Knowledge, Del Percio, Alfonso and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 167–181 | Article
This article examines three sets of infrastructures that give shape to the academic knowledge economy, namely: institutional infrastructures (universities and conferences); gate-keeping infrastructures (journals and publishers); and validation infrastructures (competitive assessments of… read more
2022 Language policy in Italian universities: Navigating the language ambiguities of higher education internationalisation Language Problems and Language Planning 46:3, pp. 231–255 | Article
In recent years, the significant expansion of English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes across higher education institutions outside English-speaking contexts has brought with it an inherent set of language-related tensions and ambiguities. In this article, we explore how a selection of… read more
2021 Linguistic injustice in academic publishing in English: Limitations and ways forward in the debate Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 2:2, pp. 160–171 | Article
In recent years, an intense debate in English for research publication purposes (ERPP) has developed around the question of whether linguistic injustice exists or not in academic publishing in English. In this Perspectives piece, I wish to engage in this debate by first situating the terms in… read more
1985 Review of Aracil (1983): Dir la realitat Language Problems and Language Planning 9:2, pp. 140–141 | Review