Academic irregularities : languge and neoliberalism in higher education / Liz Morrish and Helen Sautson.

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Liz Morrish is Principal Lecturer in English, Culture and Media at the College of Arts and Science, School of Arts and Humanities, at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is also a Honorary Visiting Fellow at York St. John University, UK. Helen Sauntson is Associate Professor and Head of Programme for Postgraduate Linguistics in the Department of Languages & Linguistics at York St. John University, UK.

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 21st century universities. Situated within a Critical Discourse Analysis-based framework, the book also draws upon other linguistic approaches, including corpus linguistics and appraisal analysis, to unpack the construction and development of the management style known as managerialism, emergent in the 1990s US and UK higher education systems, and the social dynamics and power relations embedded within the discourses at the heart of managerialism in today's universities. Each chapter introduces a particular aspect of neoliberal discourse in higher education and uses these multiple linguistic approaches to analyze linguistic data in two case studies and demonstrate these principles at work. This multi-layered systematic linguistic framework allows for a nuanced exploration of neoliberal institutional discourse and its implications for academic labor, offering a critique of the managerial system in higher education but also a larger voice for alternative discursive narratives within the academic community. 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.

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