{"product_id":"language-capitalism-colonialism-toward-a-critical-history-paperback-softback-9781442606203","title":"Language, Capitalism, Colonialism; Toward a Critical History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442606203","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage, Capitalism, Colonialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward a Critical History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMonica Heller (Author), Bonnie McElhinny (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442606203\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeller 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 whom, ideas about language get unevenly shaped, offering new perspectives that will excite readers and incite further research for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePreface:  Hope  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1:  Language, Capitalism, Colonialism:  Walking Backward into the Future \u003cbr\u003e1.1  Language and Inequality:  A Wary Approach to a Red Thread World\u003cbr\u003e1.2  Red Flags:  Keywords, Hegemonies, Ideologies, and Warty Genealogies\u003cbr\u003e1.3  Language Out of Place\u003cbr\u003e1.4  Knotted Histories: Following the Threads through the Book\u003cbr\u003e1.5  The End of the Beginning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I:  LANGUAGE, INTIMACY, AND EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2:  Language and Imperialism I:  Conversion and Kinship \u003cbr\u003e2.1  \"The First Nations Bible Translation Capacity-Building Initiative\"\u003cbr\u003e2.2  Colonialism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Decolonization \u003cbr\u003e2.3  Intimacy and Connection Across Five Continents\u003cbr\u003e2.4  Reduced to and by Christian Love:  Missionary Linguistics\u003cbr\u003e2.5  Family Trees, Comparative Philology and Secular Religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3:  Language and Imperialism II: Evolution, Hybridity, History \u003cbr\u003e3.1 \"Mixing Things Up\"\u003cbr\u003e3.2  Imperialism and Industrial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e3.3  Evolutionary Theory:  Language and\/as Race\u003cbr\u003e3.4  Slavery, Plantation, Labour, Trade, and \"Mixed\" Languages \u003cbr\u003e3.5  Americanist Anthropology:  The Limits of Cultural Critiques of Evolutionary Racism\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Modern: Assimilating Blackness, Disappearing Indigeneity\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Primitive: Extracting Language\u003cbr\u003e3.6  Linguistic Relativity, Colonial Ambivalence, and Modern Alienation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II:  THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4:  Language and European Notions of Nation and State:  \u003cbr\u003e4.1  \"Le Symbole\"\u003cbr\u003e4.2  The Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe\u003cbr\u003e4.3  Markets and Liberal Democracy\u003cbr\u003e4.4  Making Subjects Through Language\u003cbr\u003eRegimentation: Census, Standardization, Literacy\u003cbr\u003eStandardization: Grammars, Dictionaries, Canons, Pedagogies\u003cbr\u003e4.5  Language and Differential Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e4.6  Creating Peripheries\u003cbr\u003e4.7  Regulating Relations in Industrial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e4.8  Making Scientific Linguistic Expertise \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5:  Internationalism, Communism, and Fascism:  Alternative Modernities \u003cbr\u003e5.1  \"Visions of the Future\"\u003cbr\u003e5.2  Peace, Geopolitics, and International Auxiliary Languages \u003cbr\u003e5.3  Making Communist Linguistics\u003cbr\u003eMarrism\u003cbr\u003eThe Bakhtin Circle\u003cbr\u003eFrom Language  as Action to Language as Tool in the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e5.4. Language and Fascism \u003cbr\u003eNational Socialism in Germany\u003cbr\u003eLanguage and Race: Yiddish and Esperanto\u003cbr\u003eRace, Propaganda, and Mass Media\u003cbr\u003e5.5  Fault Lines \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III:  BRAVE NEW WORLDS:  LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AS TECHNIQUE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6:  The Cold War:   Surveillance, Structuralism, and Security \u003cbr\u003e6.1  \"Black Out\"\u003cbr\u003e6.2  Battles for Hearts and Minds\u003cbr\u003e6.3  The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period\u003cbr\u003e6.4  Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds\u003cbr\u003eThe Prague Linguistics Circle\u003cbr\u003eFear of the Translator\u003cbr\u003e6.5  Infrastructure and Institutionalization: Communication Studies, Area Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics \u003cbr\u003e6.6  Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax\u003cbr\u003eRational and Universal Principles for Linguistic Analysis: Late Structuralist Linguistics\u003cbr\u003eFreedom, Creativity, and Human Nature: The Rise of Generative Linguistics\u003cbr\u003e6.7  Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: On the Origins of 'Sociolinguistics':  Democracy, Development and Emancipation \u003cbr\u003e7.1  \"A Dialectologist in India\"\u003cbr\u003e7.2  Engineering Language:  Literacy, Standardization, and Education\u003cbr\u003e7.3  Language Policy and Planning:  Technocratic Solutions\u003cbr\u003e7.4  Domestic Development and American Sociolinguistics\u003cbr\u003eChallenging \"Deficit\": Three Approaches\u003cbr\u003eFear of the Political\u003cbr\u003e7.5  Challenging Consensus\u003cbr\u003eFeminist Linguistics\u003cbr\u003eDifference and Domination: Anti-Racist Critiques\u003cbr\u003e7.6  Pidgins, Creoles, and New Nationalisms\u003cbr\u003e7.7  The Rise of Sociolinguistics in Europe:  Class and Conflict\u003cbr\u003e7.8  The End of the \u003cem\u003eTrente Glorieuses \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8:  Language in Late Capitalism: Intensifications, Unruly Desires, and Alternative Worlds \u003cbr\u003e8.1  \"Nayaano-nibii maang Gichigamiin\"  \u003cbr\u003e8.2  Late Capitalism:  The Expanding Reach of the Market and the Neoliberal State\u003cbr\u003e8.3  Language, Inequality, and Ideology\u003cbr\u003e8.4  Managing Your Assets:  Language Quality, Linguistic Diversity, and Citizenship \u003cbr\u003e8.5  Brave New Selves:  \"I am a Business, Man!\"  \u003cbr\u003e8.6  Affect, Authenticity, and Embodiment\u003cbr\u003e8.7  Recapturing the Commons\u003cbr\u003e8.8  Reclamation, Redress, Refusal, and Reimagining\u003cbr\u003e8.9  This is How We Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695103078680,"sku":"9781442606203","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/language-capitalism-colonialism-toward-a-critical-history-paperback-softback-9781442606203","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}