The dynamics of academic knowledge making in a multilingual world

Abstract The use of ‘text history’ and trajectory’ constitutes an epistemological break from historically static approaches to the study academic writing for publication. However, there is a need further develop dynamic professional text production in ways which are robustly grounded scholars’ lived practices. paper briefly reviews trajectory’, signalling their value some limitations, offers heuristic foregrounding importance chronotope ( Bakhtin, 1981 [1935] ; Blommaert, 2018 ), cluster’, multi/translingual practice. Drawing on range data relating 12 multilingual scholars four national sites longitudinal Professional Academic Writing Global Context – interviews, observations, curriculum vitae foregrounds three key chronotopic dimensions dynamics textual knowledge making: micro time , specific moments production; meso trajectories texts; macro practices over life trajectories. challenges widely repeated taken-for-granted mantra that English currently (only) language science and, as such, seeks contribute strategies ‘delinking’ Mignolo, 2007 ) field studies.