Journals research report - "Program to promote the publication of findings of researchers from the 'South' in international peer review journals in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender and Sexuality". ESE:O.

2. Discourse community These common goals are what define and bind a socio-rhetorical network, and are expressed in a shared communicative purpose . “ socio-rhetorical networks that form in order to work towards sets of common goals” (Swales, 9)

6. Types of barriers (1) Immediate barriers , which include the level of academic English, argumentative style, and register of written language. (2) Ongoing barriers , which are expressed on a macro-structural level and are reflected in the ideology which permeates the discourse community involved. “ Ideologies are representations of aspects of the world which can be shown to contribute to establishing, maintaining and changing social relations of power, domination and exploitation ” (Fairclough, 9).

7. First barrier: the preeminence of English The role of English “entails that the coming generation of the world’s researchers and scholars need – with relatively few exceptions in the arts and the humanities- to have more adecquate skills in the English language if that generation is to make its way without linguistic disadvantage in its chosen world.” (Swales 1990, 10)

8. Second barrier: lack of locally-produced knowledge

11. Role of editors and journals