à paraître: Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics

Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics Edited by Michael James Grenfell Continuum Nov 2010

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education, culture, art and language. He went beyond being a sociologist to being regarded in the same 'public intellectual' role as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault.

Issues surrounding language permeate Bourdieu's entire oeuvre. Although he did undertake empirical studies on language in a range of contexts, very little of this was published. This book redresses this balance; it sets out what Bourdieu has to say about language and why, and exemplifies this approach through a series of empirical language studies.

This book will appeal to researchers across the world in fields such as sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology but is of especial interest to language and linguistics scholars.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction \ Part I \ 2. Bourdieu: A Theory of Practice, Michael Grenfell (University of Southampton, UK) \ 3. Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics, Michael Grenfell University of Southampton, UK) \ Part II \ 4. Language Variation (Phonetics and Phonology), Michael Grenfell (University of Southampton, UK) \ 5. Language and Ideology, Robert Vann (Western Michigan University, USA) \ 6. Linguistic Ethnography, Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, UK) \ 7. Language Policy, Stephen May (University of Waikato, New Zealand) \ 8. Language and Education, Allen Luke (University of Queensland, Australia) \ Part III \ 9. Towards a Bourdieusian Linguistics, Michael Grenfell (University of Southampton, UK) & Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, UK) \ 10. Conclusion
Bibliography \ Index

Michael Grenfell is Professor in the School of Education, University of Southampton. He has researched and published extensively in Applied Linguistics and the Philosophy of Education. He had a longstanding association with Bourdieu and is author of four other books on his work, including Agent Provocateur (Continuum).