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1 Online-Ressource (300 Seiten)
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1st ed
ISBN:
9783031102523
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: The Marketisation of Higher Education in the UK and the Language of Employability -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Careers Services and Advisers in HEIs -- 1.3 Employability and Skills -- 1.4 What Is Employability? -- 1.5 Why Examine the Discourse of Careers Services? -- 1.6 Previous Research on the Marketisation of HE and Employability -- 1.7 The Aim and Position of the Book -- 1.8 Research Questions -- 1.9 Overview of the Book -- References -- 2 Higher Education Since the 1980s -- 2.1 Towards the Marketisation of HE -- 2.2 The Early Stages of Managerialism in HE -- 2.3 The Abolition of the Binary Line -- 2.4 The Introduction and Rise of Undergraduate Tuition Fees -- 2.5 Competition Between HEIs in the UK -- 2.6 Representation of a 'Competitive' World Reality -- 2.7 Students as Customers and 'Powerful' Actors -- 2.8 Summary -- References -- 3 Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Power -- 3.3 Ideology and Hegemony -- 3.4 Expertise -- 3.5 Discourse -- 3.6 Critical Realism -- 3.7 Critical Discourse Analysis -- 3.7.1 Critique -- 3.7.2 Fairclough's Three-Stage Analytical Framework -- 3.8 Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar -- 3.8.1 Transitivity -- 3.8.2 Participants -- 3.8.3 Circumstances -- 3.8.4 Mood -- 3.9 Van Leeuwen's Representations of Social Actors -- 3.10 Presuppositions and Assumptions -- 3.11 Metaphors -- 3.12 Criticisms of CDA -- 3.13 Corpus Linguistics -- 3.14 Criticisms of CL -- 3.15 CDA and CL Synergy -- 3.16 Summary -- References -- 4 Data and Methods: University Websites and Corpus-Based CDA -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Corpus Linguistics Tools and Methods -- 4.3 The Universities' Careers Websites as a Genre/Domain of Interest -- 4.3.1 Data Selection: Russell Group and Post-1992 Universities
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4.3.2 Corpus Design, Construction, and Methodological Issues -- 4.3.3 The Mapping of the Careers Websites -- 4.3.4 Criteria for Data Selection -- 4.4 The CEW15 Corpus -- 4.5 Methodology -- 4.6 Analytical Framework -- 4.7 Summary -- References -- 5 The Representation of the Job-Seeking Reality and the Notion of Employability -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Representation of the 'World' and the 'Job Market' -- 5.2.1 Identifying the Context of the Services' 'World' -- 5.2.2 The World of Work -- 5.2.3 Competition in the Job Market -- 5.2.4 Job Hunting -- 5.3 The Discourse of Employability: What Is Employability? -- 5.3.1 Skills -- 5.3.2 The Variety of Skills -- 5.3.3 Employable -- 5.4 Evaluative Language -- 5.4.1 The 'Reality', the Problem, and the Solutions -- 5.4.2 A Comparison of 'Evaluative Adjectives' in CEW15, COCA, and NOW -- 5.5 Summary -- References -- 6 Understanding Careers Services and Their Roles -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Careers Services and Their Role -- 6.2.1 Careers Services as a Professional Body (Group and Individuals) -- 6.2.2 The Places/spaces in Which Careers Staff Act -- 6.2.3 Careers Education -- 6.3 Careers Services as the Actor of Clauses -- 6.3.1 Verbs That Follow the Pronoun 'We' -- 6.4 Overview of Frequently Used Patterns -- 6.4.1 'We Are' -- 6.4.2 'We Have' -- 6.4.3 'We Do' -- 6.4.4 Lexical Verbs -- 6.4.5 Modal Verbs -- 6.4.6 Areas of Focus -- 6.5 Professionalism and Expertise -- 6.5.1 The Careers Services Claimed 'Expert' Knowledge -- 6.5.2 'We Know': Knowledge of the Students'/Graduates' Actions and Future Plans -- 6.5.3 'We Know': Knowledge of What Students Do -- 6.5.4 'We Know': Knowledge of What Students Do not Do -- 6.5.5 'We Know': Knowledge of What Students Are Going Through and How They Feel -- 6.5.6 'We Know': Knowledge of What Employers Want -- 6.5.7 'Employers Are Looking For'
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6.6 Services, Resources, and Tools Offered to HE Students -- 6.7 The Helping Nature of the Careers Services' Role -- 6.8 Therapeutic Culture and Discourse -- 6.8.1 Therapy and Careers Services -- 6.8.2 The Problem Students Face -- 6.8.3 Specialists Who Offer Help -- 6.8.4 Career Counselling and 'Diagnosis' -- 6.8.5 'Treatment' Offered by the CSs -- 6.9 Summary -- References -- 7 Similarities and Differences in the Language Used by Post-1992 and Russell Group Universities -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Student 'Choice', University Groups, and Competition -- 7.3 Russell Group and Post-92 Sub-Corpora Comparison -- 7.3.1 Considering Previous Corpus Findings -- 7.3.2 Keywords -- 7.3.3 Statistically Significant Differences in Keywords -- 7.3.4 Employability -- 7.3.5 Placements, Internships, and Work Experience -- 7.3.6 Help and Support -- 7.3.7 N-grams -- 7.4 Summary -- References -- 8 Conclusions: Denaturalising the Language of Employability -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Research Questions and the Main Findings of This Study -- 8.3 The Job-Seeking 'Reality' Presented to Students by the CSs -- 8.4 The Nature of the Careers Services' Professional Role -- 8.5 Similarities and Differences in the Discourse of P92 and RG CSs' Websites -- 8.6 Denaturalisation and Praxis -- 8.7 Recommendations for Future Work -- References -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fotiadou, Maria The Language of Employability Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783031102516
Language:
English
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