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  • Constructed Languages and the Sociolinguistics of Language Making

    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Constructed Languages and the Sociolinguistics of Language Making examines so-called "constructed" languages from the French Revolution to the present, challenging the assumption that they are linguistic curiosities or exceptions. Instead, the contributors approach them as no more artificial, and no less natural, than any other language. Read in their social and political contexts, constructed ... Read more

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  • Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

    Toward a Critical History

    Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by ... Read more

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  • Sustaining the Nation

    The Making and Moving of Language and Nation

    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources. It argues that "francophone ... Read more

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  • Language in Late Capitalism

    Pride and Profit

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific characteristics of the globalized new economy in what can be thought of as "late capitalism". ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

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  • Speaking in Tongues

    **Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025In this provocative dialogue, a Nobel laureate novelist and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation.“An intelligent, moving, and supremely humane act of criticism that reveals just how difficult and wondrous it can be to inhabit a language that is not your own.” — Merve Emre**Language, historically speaking ... Read more

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  • Ideology

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

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