Turner (language and academic writing, U. of London) spotlights language as a central rather than peripheral player in the work of higher education, and frames it in the contemporary academy as an object of cultural theory. Among her perspectives are the discourse of remediation, the historical construction of contemporary representations of language in the academy, power/knowledge and the construction of rhetorical subjects, under Confucian rhetorical culture, and verbalization in intercultural context. There is no index. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)