Overview
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.
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Author: Michael Grenfell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.553kg
ISBN: 9781847065698
ISBN 10: 1847065694
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 November 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
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. We are asked as scholars to reflexively turn our gaze upon ourselves, and see language as embedded within social processes. The book offers a series of case studies which apply these theories to practical contexts. The case studies address l
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. We are asked as scholars to reflexively turn our gaze upon ourselves, and see language as embedded within social processes. The book offers a series of case studies which apply these theories to practical contexts. The case studies address language variation, and the way linguistic capital expresses itself in language, field research in Catalonia, Spain, an account of linguistic ethnography and the experience of language change in multilingual communities in the UK, debates over citizenship in relation to language policy and national identities, language and education policy and practice in the UK, with a final section on language as the object of study. These case studies are beautifully embodied illuminations of Bourdieu's theoretical contributions and offer a call to a more pluralistic and inclusive vision of language policy in action. In the final section of the book of the importance of reflexivity when thinking about language in education is stressed. If language is the medium of education, as Grenfell, and the authors of this book (and Bourdieu) would say, then this book is a must for all scholars of language in education, and those who would wish to understand and reflect on educational processes and practices. Th
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. We are asked as scholars to reflexively turn our gaze upon ourselves, and see language as embedded within social processes. The book offers a series of case studies which apply these theories to practical contexts. The case studies address language variation, and the way linguistic capital expresses itself in language, field research in Catalonia, Spain, an account of linguistic ethnography and the experience of language change in multilingual communities in the UK, debates over citizenship in relation to language policy and national identities, language and education policy and practice in the UK, with a final section on language as the object of study. These case studies are beautifully embodied illuminations of Bourdieu's theoretical contributions and offer a call to a more pluralistic and inclusive vision of language policy in action. In the final section of the book of the importance of reflexivity when thinking about language in education is stressed. If language is the medium of education, as Grenfell, and the authors of this book (and Bourdieu) would say, then this book is a must for all scholars of language in education, and those who would wish to understand and reflect on educational processes and practices. This
Author Information
Michael Grenfell is Professor in the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Southampton.
