Researching Across Languages and Cultures

<p>We are working within an increasingly globalised knowledge economy, where researchers collaborate in cross-cultural teams, collect data in a variety of languages and share findings for international audiences who may be unfamiliar with the cultural context. <i>Researching across Languages and Cultures</i> is a guide for doctoral students and other researchers engaged in such multilingual and intercultural research, providing a framework for analysis and development of their experiences.</p><p>Demonstrating the link between the theoretical approaches offered by the authors and the practical problems encountered by doctoral researchers, this ground-breaking book draws on research interviews with doctoral students from around the world. Students’ written reflections on their experiences are presented as interludes between each chapter. A practical, hands-on guide to planning, conducting and writing up research, the book explores the crucial roles involved in interpreting data across cultures within doctoral research. </p><p>Key topics include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The role of the interpreter and/or local research assistant in the research process and the ethics of translation.</li> <p> </p> <li>Constructing knowledge across cultures: addressing questions of audience, power and voice </li> <p> </p> <li>Academic literacy practices in multilingual settings</li> <p> </p> <li>The doctoral student’s role within the geopolitics of academic publishing and forms of research dissemination </li> <p> </p> <li>The pragmatics of mediated communication (implicatures, intentions, dialogue) </li> </ul><p>Researchers who come from and work in monolingual societies often forget that their context is unusual – most of the world live in multilingual contexts, where linguistic shifts and hybridities are the norm. Two authors with extensive experience, together with a number of their existing or former research students, share insights into these issues that surround language and culture in research. </p><p>This book will be a useful guide for academic researchers, doctoral students, research supervisors and Masters students who carry out empirical research in multilingual or multicultural contexts and/or are writing about their research for a diverse readership across the world.</p>