[lg policy] book notice: Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics

[Harold Schiffman]

Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics
Published: 2012
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
                http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=169564&SearchType=Basic

Author: Michael Grenfell

Abstract:

Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers
of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of
education, culture, art and language. He went beyond being a
sociologist to being regarded in the same 'public intellectual' role
as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault. Issues surrounding language
permeate Bourdieu's entire oeuvre. Although he did undertake empirical
studies on language in a range of contexts, very little of this was
published. This book redresses this balance; it sets out what Bourdieu
has to say about language and why, and exemplifies this approach
through a series of empirical language studies. This book will appeal
to researchers across the world in fields such as sociology,
philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology but is of especial interest
to language and linguistics scholars.

"Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics is accessible, readable and
scholarly - a welcome addition to the field. It provides a clear
situating of Bourdieu's ideas, which will be particularly valuable to
all those wanting to engage with and understand his theories and
provides a sustained engagement with a particular field, that of
language and linguistics. The book will be particularly useful to
those working in educational settings, and those who want to engage
with Bourdieu's theories to counter inequalities in education. This
book celebrates Bourdieu's activism, his passion and his commitment to
social justice in education, with language as the arena for this
engagement. The power of words, the way their reality seeps in, is the
subject of this book." - Kate Pahl, Senior Lecturer in Education,
School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK

Contents: 1. Introduction \ Part I \ 2. Bourdieu: A Theory of
Practice, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) \ 3.
Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland) \ Part II \ 4. Language Variation (Phonetics and
Phonology), Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) \ 5.
Language and Ideology, Robert Vann (Western Michigan University, USA)
\ 6. Linguistic Ethnography, Adrian Blackledge (University of
Birmingham, UK) \ 7. Language Policy, Stephen May (University of
Waikato, New Zealand) \ 8. Language and Education, Cheryl Hardy (John
Moores University, Liverpool, UK) \ Part III \ 9. Towards a
Bourdieusian Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland) \ 10. Conclusion
Bibliography \ Index<

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                            Philosophy of Language

Written In: English (eng)

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