Language and Symbolic Power - Brossura

Bourdieu, Pierre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 074561034X ISBN 13: 9780745610344

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 1992

Riassunto

Examines the ways in which power is bolstered and extended by means of symbols. The book considers the importance of ritual in confirming institutions, looks at ways in which organs of power attempt to control discourse and explores the ways in which ideology can supplant reality.

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Recensione:

"Linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, folklorists converge more and more today in studies of situated discourse. The link between the dynamics of situations and the dynamics of society as a whole goes largely neglected. For that articulation one needs the resources of a social theory. Here Bourdieu′s analyses of symbolic power and practice are our best resource; one might say they are indispensable. The starting point is not the uniform language of educational elites and formal linguists, but expressive styles; not social structure as fixed and given, but fields and fractions in which identities are ever–contested; power as collusion as well as compulsion; configurations that theory not only discloses but also effects; all in all, a perspective that is both sceptical and empirical, broad yet subtle, engaged and insightful." Professor Dell Hymes, University of Virginia

L'autore:

Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the College de France.

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• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 074561034X
• ISBN 13: 9780745610344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312