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Language in Late Capitalism : Pride and Profit.
This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge critical studies in multilingualism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Language in Late Capitalism Pride and Profit; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Pride and Profit: Changing Discourses of Language, Capital and Nation-State; 2. Sociolinguistic Regimes and the Management of "Diversity"; 3. Commodification of Pride and Resistance to Profit: Language Practices as Terrain of Struggle in a Swiss Football Stadium; 4. "Total Quality Language Revival"; 5. Literary Tourism: New Appropriations of Landscape and Territory in Catalonia.
- 6. Pride, Profi t and Distinction: Negotiations Across Time and Space in Community Language Education7. War, Peace and Languages in the Canadian Navy; 8 Frontiers and Frenchness: Pride and Profi t in the Production of Canada; 9. The Making of "Workers of the World": Language and the Labor Brokerage State; 10. Language Workers: Emblematic Figures of Late Capitalism; 11. Silicon Valley Sociolinguistics? Analyzing Language, Gender and Communities of Practice in the New Knowledge Economy; Notes on Contributors; Index.