First, the reader who reads acknowledgments.
Two less prestigious but not negligible ingredients should be taken into consideration to explain the flood of academic acknowledgments: routine and conformism.
All these elements play a part-which?-in the inflation of present academic acknowledgments.
Here too, we can only offer the hypothesis of a correlation between specialization and the emergence of acknowledgments.
Many authors begin their acknowledgments by mentioning the duration of their work and the numerous debts they have incurred.
There are, in other words, 16 selections that do not have publication acknowledgments anywhere in the book.
From this date, the wife is often mentioned in acknowledgments.
What is interesting is that he makes quite conventional acknowledgments to his family, thus falling unconsciously into the very pathos he is intent on avoiding.
