Description
Product ID: | 9780745610344 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Language and Symbolic Power |
Authors: | Author: Pierre Bourdieu |
Page Count: | 312 |
Subjects: | Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Anthropology, Political science and theory, Anthropology, Political science & theory |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1992-12-10 |