Pierre Bourdieu (College de France)

Language and Symbolic Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together Bourdieua s highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech--acts elaborated by Austin and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers / Polity Press
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780745610344
• ISBN-10: 074561034X
• Artikelnr.: 09589890

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.