Language policies from the semiperiphery

The recent rise in the number of English-medium journals non-Anglophone countries stems from hegemony English global scholarly communication, and language requirements outlined by such to authors offer a valuable yet often overlooked source information terms underlying values assumptions concerning knowledge production circulation. Drawing on notion “semiperiphery” refer Brazil’s current standing within scientific publishing, this exploratory study focuses author guidelines Brazilian indexed SciELO database map established for manuscript submission assess, discursive perspective, whether they reinforce or disprove dominant ideologies regarding academic construction dissemination, status as lingua franca. research data included 98 journal sections seven subject areas, results suggest that across disciplinary spectrum endorse primacy (native speaker) which calls critique monolingualism part policymakers, Brazil elsewhere