Thomas Discenna

Discourses of Denial

The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138190757
• ISBN-10: 1138190756
• Artikelnr.: 49209270

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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