1st Edition

Academic Irregularities Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education

By Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson Copyright 2020
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

*RUNNER UP FOR 2021 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* This volume serves as a critical examination of the discourses at play in the higher education system and the ways in which these discourses underpin the transmission of neoliberal values in 21 st century universities. Situated within a Critical Discourse Analysis-based framework, the book also draws upon other linguistic approaches, including corpus... Read more



List of tables and figures





Acknowledgements





Introduction





Chapter 1 – Critical University Studies: Defining a Field





Chapter 2 – The Student as Consumer and Commodity





Chapter 3 – Marketing the Goods





Chapter 4 – Language and Audit Culture 1: Research and Performance Management





Chapter 5 – Language and Audit Culture 2: The Case of the Teaching Excellence Framework





Chapter 6 – Colonising the Corporate Academic





Chapter 7 – Conclusions and Possibilities for Contesting the Discourse





Glossary of terms

Biography

Liz Morrish is an independent scholar. For over 30 years, she taught linguistics at Nottingham Trent University.

Helen Sauntson is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at York St John University, UK.