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Set in the southwestern and less affluent extreme of the European continent, and facing the consequences of a serious economic crisis since 2011, Portugal is no doubt part of the semiperiphery of the world systems. Following Sousa Santos’s understanding of this nation in such terms on mainly geopolitical and economic grounds (1985), Nunes and Gonsalves (2001) and Bennett (2011c) have convincingly shown that this is also the case with regards to scientific/academic production.
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de Barros, R.Q. (2014). Portuguese Academics’ Attitudes to English as the Academic Lingua Franca: A Case-Study. In: Bennett, K. (eds) The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137351197_7
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