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Index
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
The nature of this book
Some caveats
2 Mass publication and academic life
Disciplines and the modern university
The massive expansion of higher education
Mass producing research
Expanding publications
Increase of publications
Fragmenting disciplines
Competing approaches and journals
A brief example of editorial writing
3 Learning to write badly
Bourdieu and puffed-up language
Bourdieu, students and professors
The glorious ideational metafunction
Learning the subdisciplinary language
Becoming a native academic
Possessing an approach
Disciplined and never alone
4 Jargon, nouns and acronyms
The case against jargon
The defence of jargon
Nouns and more nouns
Verbs as servants
The rise of nouns in academic writing
The rise of acronyms
Pierre Bourdieu’s argument against ordinary language
5 Turning people into things
Freud: two ways of writing
Repression and repressing
Reification and turning people into things
How to reify with reification
Mediatization and other izations
Promoting big concepts
6 How to avoid saying who did it
Grammar of ideology
Repeating the problem of nominalization
Things and processes
Scientific writing and the passive voice
Nominalization: processes and things
Promoting the nouns
7 Some sociological things: governmentality, cosmopolitanization and conversation analysis
Establishing governmentality as a sociological thing
Establishing governmentality
How to write about ‘governmentality’ and other things
Changing words for changing times
Conversation analysis and its conversational things
Creating the things of conversation
Orienting to semi-technical terms
Doing being a social scientist
8 Experimental social psychology: concealing and exaggerating
Social psychology as an experimental science
Concepts as nouns
A world of variables, not a world of people
What’s going on? How many?
Trying to discover what is going on
Writing about what happened
Rhetoric and repression
9 Conclusion and recommendations
Whispering in the wind
References
Index
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