영어졸업인증제에 관한 미디어 담론의 역사성 분석: 미셸 푸코의 통치성 이론을 중심으로

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The purpose of this study is to understand the historical flow of discourse politics on the Korean universities’ graduation accreditation system for the English proficiency certification in the noted Korean newspaper reportages. From the perspectives of Fairclough’s notion of the associated critical discourse, this study illustrated how the rationalization and legitimation of a particular political agenda was inextricably related to the process of knowledge and power production. Taking this specific text as a case, it also drew upon Foucault’s notion of governmentality, which examines the exercise of power through the governing of the state and the governing of the individuals that comprise the state in that case. It was found that the Korean university’s graduation accreditation system for an English proficiency certification has been a tangible manifestation of neoliberal political rationality as noted and reviewed in late modernity and contemporary times.

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