The Forum
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This article reports the results of a diachronic study of the flagship publication of the TESOL organization, the TESOL Quarterly (TQ). A flagship periodical in any field is worth more than cursory interest because it self-evidently is something more than a passive reflector of contemporary trends and issues. The gatekeeping activities of editors—and of those called upon to serve as reviewers—set standards of scholarly and professional behavior and establish areas of greater concern. Although a major periodical is partly shaped by wider forces in the disciplinary culture, it also shapes that disciplinary culture by the way it goes about its business. One obvious way of studying the 20-year development of a periodical is to construct a historical account. Here the investigator would largely tell the story of the periodical from within: the circumstances of its founding, its growth and development, its internal crises and key points of transition-and such events set against the wider background of the story of the rise and fall of movements, enthusiasms, and research fronts (see Bowers, 1986). In the pursuit of such a historical narrative, the historian is likely to spend time in interviewing key figures and in examining archival documents and will do so with the laudable and reasonable ambition of relating cause and effect. In particular, the journal historian, like his or her counterparts in the history of knowledge, is likely to give special importance to attribution-wherein the TQ’s pages did a particular concept first surface, and out of who’s head? As it happens, I have had neither the time nor the right kind of experience to be able to construct such a narrative. My own contacts with TESOL and the TQ are both short-lived and peripheral in comparison with those of many others. On the other hand, I have some familiarity with the procedures of citational analysis (Small, 1982), and Swales (1986) was an attempt to apply
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تاریخ انتشار 2011