Description: This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among 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.
Brief description: Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.
Review Quotes: A perspective that is both skeptical and empirical, broad yet subtle, engaged and insightful.--Dell Hymes, University of Virginia