Language in late capitalism : pride and profit / edited by Alexandre Duchene and Monica Heller.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Pride and profit : changing discourses of language, capital and nation-state / Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne
- Sociolinguistic regimes and the management of "diversity" / Susan Gal
- Commodification of pride and resistance to profit : language practices as terrain of struggle in a Swiss football stadium / Alfonso del Percio and Alexandre Duchêne
- "Total quality language revival" / Jacqueline Urla
- Literary tourism : new appropriations of landscape and territory in Catalonia / Joan Pujolar and Kathryn Jones
- Pride, profit and distinction : negotiations across time and space in community language education / Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese
- War, peace and languages in the Canadian Navy / Michelle Daveluy
- Frontiers and Frenchness : pride and profit in the production of Canada / Monica Heller and Lindsay Bell
- Making of "Workers of the world" : language and the labor brokerage state / Beatriz P. Lorente
- Language workers : emblematic figures of late capitalism / Josiane Boutet
- Silicon Valley sociolinguistics? Analysing language, gender and Communities of practice in the new knowledge economy / Bonnie McElhinny.