Academic Irregularities; Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education by Liz Morrish; Helen Sauntson instant download

Academic Irregularities; Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education by Liz Morrish; Helen Sauntson instant download

This book evaluates cultural and discursive changes within UK universities which have evolved within an era influenced by neoliberal governmentality from 1981 to the present. The authors make connections between economic and political developments in society and the changes to conditions of labour and values operating in (largely) Western universities. The original contribution of the research presented in this book is to bring the tools offered by applied linguistics to the analysis of the discourses emerging from the marketised, managerial academy where the nature of academic identities and the role of the university in society are being contested. Using some of the tools of applied linguistics (specifically corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis and appraisal analysis), the authors uncover the power relations and contradictions experienced by those working and studying in UK universities. Morrish and Sauntson argue that there is presently a massive reorientation of universities away from their previous mission as serving the public good, as repositories of knowledge, as a refuge from the discipline of the market and capitalism and governed by the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The discourse analysed throughout the book is more than just a reflection of these changes – it is arguably constitutive of ideological change and of a new kind of neoliberal, self-managing, subordinate subject. This important work is a key resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, critical discourse analysis, sociology, business and management studies, education and cultural studies.