Doukakis, Anna2017-05-182017-05-182009Doukakis, A. (2011). Breaking down academic borders. In R. Cribb (Ed.), Transmission of academic values in Asian Studies: workshop proceedings. Canberra: Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration978-1-74076-225-0http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116966This paper will touch on the role of academic English in Asian Studies, the use and overuse of technical language and jargon, the role of the academic in a world of new information and technologies, and the need for the academy to reach out beyond our own self imposed borders. I cannot provide answers to the questions such discussions raise, but hope that the dialogue thus created will prove fruitful for the discipline of Asian Studies.Australian National University and Leiden University102kB7 pagespdfANU has permission for web publication from the authors of all the papers included in the collection Transmission of academic values in Asian Studies. A statement appears on the main page of the website: 'Copyright in and responsibility for the content of each paper lies with its author. Papers appear on this website by permission of the authors. Any paper may be downloaded for fair use under the Copyright Act (1954), its later amendments and any other relevant legislation.' - from email of Professor Robert Cribb, ANRC Project Coordinator (Australia), dated 4/8/11academic English, George Orwell, Google Books2011