How much do we know about the establishment of the field of semiotics? Eduardo ChA?vez Herrera (Warwick) shares his observations of semiotics in four countries.
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Mapping the field ai??i?? What makes a professor in linguistics?
Analysing academic worlds is very straight forward ai??i?? thatai??i??s at least what one might think!
There are these researchers doing their research in a particular way depending on their discipline and their research field, working in strong international networks and publishing in journals of global renown. However, once our team started to dig into this we werenai??i??t sure, any longer, if there is only one academic world or rather multiple worlds, depending on the administrative culture and the institutional structure of academia in a particular country. Continue reading Mapping the field ai??i?? What makes a professor in linguistics?
On the limits of academic freedom
Researchers often struggle with how they are categorized by others
Researchers should be free from constraints that prevent them from the pursuit of scientific truth ai??i?? this is an idea that universities all over the world like to pride themselves on. However, even the purest, most basic research is subject to pressures which are never exclusively scientific. Researchers are subject to a number of social constraints as they compete for resources, pursue careers, and network with others. In a nutshell, research is a social practice ai??i?? a practice which does not only turn around ideas.
In my own career, I am often reminded of the social aspects of research when I interact with other researchers:I find it painful to be defined by a limited set of academic career parameters!