Linguistic Justice and Neoliberalism in Academia

Academia in English-speaking countries has gradually become more and more international, regularly recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from abroad. This has led to complaints that non-native speakers (NNS from hereon) of English are disadvantaged and/or experience discrimination with regard to their academic standing.

In our discipline, this claim of “linguistic injustice” has culminated in the Barcelona Principles (2021), initiated by Filippo Contesi.

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