Discourses of Denial - The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor

List of contents

1. Introduction: Crises of Academic Labor 2. Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Rhetoric, and the Cognitariat 3. The Professoriate and its Critics 4. The Strangeness of Academic Labor 5. Graduate Student Unionization 6. Contingent Academics and the Denial of Academic Labor 7. The Student Athlete as Laborer 8. Higher Education and the Denial of Labor

About the author

Thomas A. Discenna is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism where he teaches courses in the philosophy of communication, rhetorical theory and criticism and discourse analysis. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, the Western Journal of Communication, Rhetorica and Communication Quarterly.

Summary

This volume employs a case study approach grounded in Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the myriad ways in which the work of academics are constructed as distinct from ordinary labor and their impact on shaping discussions of labor in the American higher education landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Discenna, Thomas (Oakland University Discenna, Thomas A. Discenna, Discenna Thomas
• Assisted by: Michelle M. Lazar (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138190757
• ISBN: 978-1-138-19075-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse; Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Communication Studies, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism