Language and Neoliberalism

Marnie Holborow is a lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University, Ireland. She is a co-author of Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics and has written widely on the presence of neoliberal ideology in language.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Language and Neoliberalism: Issues and FrameworkChapter 2. Neoliberalism and Language as a CommodityChapter 3. Markets, Metaphors and Neoliberal IdeologyChapter 4. Language and the Market MetaphorChapter 5. The Neoliberal Invention of EntrepreneurChapter 6. Austerity, Entrepreneurship and the Neoliberal UniversityChapter 7. Conclusion: Implications for Understanding Ideology in Language

'An acute, imaginative piece of discourse analysis which reveals in tenacious detail just how deeply our language has been contaminated by the dehumanising idiom of the corporations' Terry Eagleton, University of Lancaster, UK'Holborow raises the bar for studies of language and political economy. She applies subtle Marxist analyses to how keywords linked to markets and entrepreneurialism are shaping an ever-increasing number of spheres and activities. She provocatively asks when, how and if metaphors of market and commodity—including uses by critical scholars—challenge neoliberal ideologies. This book is a crucial read for applied linguists, sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, and anyone interested in the role of language in ideologies that justify or obscure or try to make commonsensical exploitative economic relations.' Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto, Canada'...the book is a notable contribution to the study of neoliberalism as a political as well as an economic project, and its emphatic distinction ‘between the ideological representation of the world and … the real experience of class conflict’ (130) constitutes, amongst other forms of praxis, a crucial dimension of ‘the much needed challenge to neoliberalism’ (131) – a challenge that many of our more ‘fashionable’ theories are unable to present.' Liane Tanguay (University of Houston-Victoria) Key Words