The commodification of language : conceptual concerns and empirical manifestations /: conceptual concerns and empirical manifestations. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John E. Petrovic and Bedrettin Yazan.
• Editors: Petrovic, John E; Yazan, Bedrettin
• Contents: List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction John E. Petrovic & Bedrettin Yazan Chapter 1: Confronting Language Fetishism in Practice William Simpson & John P. O’Regan Chapter 2: Language as Instrument, Resource, and maybe Capital, but not Commodity: A Marxian Clarification John E. Petrovic & Bedrettin Yazan Chapter 3: Language, Context, and Economic Value: An Interactionist Approach Kenneth McGill Chapter 4: Misconceptions of Economics and Political Economy in Sociolinguistic Research François Grin Chapter 5: Between Voice and Voices: Negotiating value among interpreters in Toronto Julie H. Tay & Sebastian Muth Chapter 6: "A breathtaking English": Negotiating what counts as distinctive linguistic capital at an elite international school near Barcelona Andrea Sunyol Chapter 7: Language, ethnicity, and tourism in the making of a Himalayan Tamang village Bal Krishna Sharma Chapter 8: When linguistic capital isn’t enough: personality development and English speakerhood as capital in India Katy Highet & Alfonso Del Percio Chapter 9: Ideologies of multilingualism as an investment and as a marketable commodity among Greek expat families in Luxembourg Nikos Gogonas Chapter 10: Names as linguistic capital Peter K. W. Tan Chapter 11: Ideologies of French and commodification: What does meaning making imply for multilinguals in transnational times? Sylvie Roy & Julie Byrd Clark Coda: Issues arising around conceptual and empirical work on the commodification of language David Block Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.44; Language and languages -- Economic aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000372793; 9781000372786; 9781003028581
• Related ISBNs: 9780367464080; 9780367464073
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.