Language and Symbolic Power, 1st Edition
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- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
10 December 1992
Summary
This volume brings together Bourdieu’s highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should be viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their interests and dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745610344 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 074561034X |
| Author: | Pierre Bourdieu |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 December 1992 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 155mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
“Linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, folklorists converge more and more today in studies of situated discourse. The link between the dynamics of situations and the dynamics of society as a whole goes largely neglected. For that articulation one needs the resources of a social theory. Here Bourdieu’s analyses of symbolic power and practice are our best resource; one might say they are indispensable. The starting point is not the uniform language of educational elites and formal linguists, but expressive styles; not social structure as fixed and given, but fields and fractions in which identities are ever-contested; power as collusion as well as compulsion; configurations that theory not only discloses but also effects; all in all, a perspective that is both sceptical and empirical, broad yet subtle, engaged and insightful.” Professor Dell Hymes, University of Virginia
About The Author
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France.
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