The Commodification of Language

Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations
Herausgeber: Petrovic, John E; Yazan, Bedrettin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. It is key reading for researchers and advanced students of critical sociolinguistics, language and economy and other areas within linguistics, applied linguistics and language teacher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780367464073
• ISBN-10: 0367464071
• Artikelnr.: 60798388

Autorenporträt

John E. Petrovic is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies at The University of Alabama. He teaches in the areas of philosophy of education and educational policy, with focus on language policy in education. His recent books include A Post-Liberal Approach to Language Policy in Education and Unschooling Critical Pedagogy, Unfixing Schools. Bedrettin Yazan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on language teacher learning and identity, collaboration between ESL and content teachers, language policy and planning, and World Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative case study.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Confronting Language Fetishism in Practice
Chapter 2: Language as Instrument, Resource, and maybe Capital, but not
Commodity: A Marxian Clarification
Chapter 3: Language, Context, and Economic Value: An Interactionist
Approach
Chapter 4: Misconceptions of Economics and Political Economy in
Sociolinguistic Research
Chapter 5: Between Voice and Voices: Negotiating value among interpreters
in Toronto
Chapter 6: "A breathtaking English": Negotiating what counts as distinctive
linguistic capital at an elite international school near Barcelona
Chapter 7: Language, ethnicity, and tourism in the making of a Himalayan
Tamang village
Chapter 8: When linguistic capital isn't enough: personality development
and English speakerhood as capital in India
Chapter 9: Ideologies of multilingualism as an investment and as a
marketable commodity among Greek expat families in Luxembourg
Chapter 10: Names as linguistic capital
Chapter 11: Ideologies of French and commodification: What does meaning
making imply for multilinguals in transnational times?
Coda: Issues arising around conceptual and empirical work on the
commodification of language
Index