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This volume brings together Bourdieu'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.
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Language and Symbolic Power, Pierre Bourdieu
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- 1992
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 074561034X
- ISBN13
- 9780745610344
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Languages, Sociology, Society, Linguistics, Anthropology, Scientific Theories
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- 4.2 out of 5
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- This volume brings together Bourdieu'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.