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Title
The language of employability : a corpus-based analysis of UK university websites / Maria Fotiadou.
ISBN
9783031102523 (electronic bk.)
3031102525 (electronic bk.)
3031102517
9783031102516
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-10252-3 doi
Call Number
HF5382.5.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.70235014
Summary
This book employs a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology to analyse the language used by university careers services in the UK. Drawing on a corpus which includes the public-facing websites of careers services from 24 Russell Group and 34 Post-92 universities, the author highlights some of the potentially problematic 'common-sense' views and ideas that are currently promoted to students using these services. She argues that the language used by university websites promotes neoliberal ideology and encourages the denaturalisation of such language. This book will be of interest to linguists, sociologists, education scholars, and scholars who are otherwise interested in the notion of employability. Maria Fotiadou completed her PhD at the University of Sunderland, UK. She is now an independent researcher, and her research interests are in corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, the discourse of employability, gender studies, language and power, ideology, and resistance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The marketisation of Higher Education in the UK and the language of employability
Chapter 2. Higher Education policy since the 1980s
Chapter 3. Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis
Chapter 4. Data and methods: University websites and corpus-based CDA
Chapter 5. The representation of the job-seeking reality and the notion of employability
Chapter 6. Understanding careers services and their roles
Chapter 7. Similarities and differences in the language used by post-1992 and Russell Group universities
Chapter 8. Conclusions: Denaturalising the language of employability.
