This book offers a major reappraisal of the role of language in the social world. Focusing on three main areas - the global spread of English, Standard English, and language and sexism -The Politics of English: examines World English in relation to international capitalism and colonialism; analyzes the ideological underpinnings of the debate about Standard English; and locates sexism in language as arising from social relations.
Locating itself in the classical Marxist tradition, this book shows how language is both shaped by, and contributes to social life.
This book offers a major reappraisal of the role of language in the social world. Focusing on three main areas - the global spread of English, Standar...
This book examines and challenges Neoliberalism, or economic liberalism, the ideology at the heart of the current global economic crisis, from the perspective of applied linguistics.
This book examines and challenges Neoliberalism, or economic liberalism, the ideology at the heart of the current global economic crisis, from the ...
Language and Neoliberalism examines the ways in which neoliberalism, or the ideology of market rule, finds expression in language. In this groundbreaking original study, Holborow shows at once the misleading character of ideological meaning and the underlying social reality from which that meaning emerges.
In universities, it is now the norm to use terms like entrepreneurial and business partnerships. How have these terms become a core component of education and gained such force? Markets have become, metaphorically, a power in their own right. They now tell governments how to act...
Language and Neoliberalism examines the ways in which neoliberalism, or the ideology of market rule, finds expression in language. In this groundbr...
