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| author | Michael Billig |
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| contents | Academic Words and Academic Capitalism Michael Billig Sociología Writing style Nominalization Academic capitalism Academic publishing This paper suggests that it is the best and worst of times for academic work. It is the best of times because there are more academics publishing than ever before. It is the worst of times because there is much unnecessary publication. Working in the competitive conditions of academic capitalism, academics feel impelled to keep publishing, whether or not they have anything to say. The pressures to publish continually and to promote one's own approach are reflected in the way that social scientists are writing. Academics use a noun-based technical language, which is less precise than ordinary language. Postgraduates are taught this way of writing as a precondition for entering the social sciences. In this way, the nature of academic capitalism not only determines the conditions under which academics are working but it affects the way that they are writing. 2013 artículo científico 1578-8946 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=53725662002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=537 Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social application/pdf Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social (España) Num.1 Vol.13 |
| format | Artículo científico |
| id | redalyc_53725662002 |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| spellingShingle | Academic Words and Academic Capitalism Michael Billig Sociología Writing style Nominalization Academic capitalism Academic publishing Academic Words and Academic Capitalism Michael Billig Sociología Writing style Nominalization Academic capitalism Academic publishing This paper suggests that it is the best and worst of times for academic work. It is the best of times because there are more academics publishing than ever before. It is the worst of times because there is much unnecessary publication. Working in the competitive conditions of academic capitalism, academics feel impelled to keep publishing, whether or not they have anything to say. The pressures to publish continually and to promote one's own approach are reflected in the way that social scientists are writing. Academics use a noun-based technical language, which is less precise than ordinary language. Postgraduates are taught this way of writing as a precondition for entering the social sciences. In this way, the nature of academic capitalism not only determines the conditions under which academics are working but it affects the way that they are writing. 2013 artículo científico 1578-8946 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=53725662002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=537 Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social application/pdf Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social (España) Num.1 Vol.13 |
| title | Academic Words and Academic Capitalism |
| topic | Sociología Writing style Nominalization Academic capitalism Academic publishing |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=53725662002 |