Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny

Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

Toward a Critical History

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Produktbeschreibung

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781442606203
• ISBN-10: 1442606207
• Artikelnr.: 47743604

Autorenporträt

Monica Heller is Professor of Anthropology and Education at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a past president of the American Anthropological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface:  Hope 
Chapter 1:  Language, Capitalism, Colonialism:  Walking Backward into the
Future
1.1  Language and Inequality:  A Wary Approach to a Red Thread World
1.2  Red Flags:  Keywords, Hegemonies, Ideologies, and Warty Genealogies
1.3  Language Out of Place
1.4  Knotted Histories: Following the Threads through the Book
1.5  The End of the Beginning
PART I:  LANGUAGE, INTIMACY, AND EMPIRE
 
Chapter 2:  Language and Imperialism I:  Conversion and Kinship
2.1  "The First Nations Bible Translation Capacity-Building Initiative"
2.2  Colonialism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Decolonization
2.3  Intimacy and Connection Across Five Continents
2.4  Reduced to and by Christian Love:  Missionary Linguistics
2.5  Family Trees, Comparative Philology and Secular Religion
Chapter 3:  Language and Imperialism II: Evolution, Hybridity, History
3.1 "Mixing Things Up"
3.2  Imperialism and Industrial Capitalism
3.3  Evolutionary Theory:  Language and/as Race
3.4  Slavery, Plantation, Labour, Trade, and "Mixed" Languages
3.5  Americanist Anthropology:  The Limits of Cultural Critiques of
Evolutionary Racism
American Modern: Assimilating Blackness, Disappearing Indigeneity
American Primitive: Extracting Language
3.6  Linguistic Relativity, Colonial Ambivalence, and Modern Alienation
PART II:  THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
Chapter 4:  Language and European Notions of Nation and State: 
4.1  "Le Symbole"
4.2  The Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe
4.3  Markets and Liberal Democracy
4.4  Making Subjects Through Language
Regimentation: Census, Standardization, Literacy
Standardization: Grammars, Dictionaries, Canons, Pedagogies
4.5  Language and Differential Citizenship
4.6  Creating Peripheries
4.7  Regulating Relations in Industrial Capitalism
4.8  Making Scientific Linguistic Expertise
Chapter 5:  Internationalism, Communism, and Fascism:  Alternative
Modernities
5.1  "Visions of the Future"
5.2  Peace, Geopolitics, and International Auxiliary Languages
5.3  Making Communist Linguistics
Marrism
The Bakhtin Circle
From Language  as Action to Language as Tool in the Cold War
5.4. Language and Fascism
National Socialism in Germany
Language and Race: Yiddish and Esperanto
Race, Propaganda, and Mass Media
5.5  Fault Lines
PART III:  BRAVE NEW WORLDS:  LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AS TECHNIQUE
Chapter 6:  The Cold War:   Surveillance, Structuralism, and Security
6.1  "Black Out"
6.2  Battles for Hearts and Minds
6.3  The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period
6.4  Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds
The Prague Linguistics Circle
Fear of the Translator
6.5  Infrastructure and Institutionalization: Communication Studies, Area
Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
6.6  Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax
Rational and Universal Principles for Linguistic Analysis: Late
Structuralist Linguistics
Freedom, Creativity, and Human Nature: The Rise of Generative Linguistics
6.7  Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War
Chapter 7: On the Origins of 'Sociolinguistics':  Democracy, Development
and Emancipation
7.1  "A Dialectologist in India"
7.2  Engineering Language:  Literacy, Standardization, and Education
7.3  Language Policy and Planning:  Technocratic Solutions
7.4  Domestic Development and American Sociolinguistics
Challenging "Deficit": Three Approaches
Fear of the Political
7.5  Challenging Consensus
Feminist Linguistics
Difference and Domination: Anti-Racist Critiques
7.6  Pidgins, Creoles, and New Nationalisms
7.7  The Rise of Sociolinguistics in Europe:  Class and Conflict
7.8  The End of the Trente Glorieuses
Chapter 8:  Language in Late Capitalism: Intensifications, Unruly Desires,
and Alternative Worlds
8.1  "Nayaano-nibii maang Gichigamiin"  
8.2  Late Capitalism:  The Expanding Reach of the Market and the Neoliberal
State
8.3  Language, Inequality, and Ideology
8.4  Managing Your Assets:  Language Quality, Linguistic Diversity, and
Citizenship
8.5  Brave New Selves:  "I am a Business, Man!" 
8.6  Affect, Authenticity, and Embodiment
8.7  Recapturing the Commons
8.8  Reclamation, Redress, Refusal, and Reimagining
8.9  This is How We Hope
References
Index