Language and Symbolic Power

Author:   Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780745610344


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 December 1992
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Author:   Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780745610344


ISBN 10:   074561034
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 December 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface. Editor's Introduction. General Introduction. Part I: The Economy of Linguistic Exchanges:. Introduction. 1. The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language. 2. Price Formation and the Anticipation of Profits. Part II: The Social Institution of Symbolic Power:. Introduction. 3. Authorized Language:. The Social Conditions for the Effectiveness of Ritual Discourse. . 4. Rites of Institution. 5. Description and Prescription:. The Conditions of Possibility and the Limits of Political Effectiveness. 6. Censorship and the Imposition of Form. Part III: Symbolic Power and the Political Field:. 7. On Symbolic Power. 8. Political Representation:. Elements for a Theory of the Political Field. . 9. Delegation and Political Fetishism. 10. Identity and Representation:. Elements for a Critical Reflection on the Idea of Region. . 11. Social Space and the Genesis of 'Classes'. Notes. Index.

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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


"""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"


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 Bourdieua 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


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Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France.

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