Language in Late Capitalism

Alexandre Duchêne is Professor of Sociology of language and Director of the Institute of Multilingualism of the University and HEP of Fribourg (Switzerland). His recent publications include Ideologies across Nations (Mouton de Gruyter 2008) and Discourses of Endangerment (with Monica Heller, Continuum 2007).Monica Heller is professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her most recent book is Paths to Postnationalism: A Critical Ethnography of Language and Identity (2011, Oxford University Press).

• 1. Pride and profit: changing discourses of language, capital and nation-state Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne 2. Sociolinguistics regimes and the management of "diversity" Susan Gal 3. Commodification of pride and resistance to profit: language practices as terrain of struggle in a Swiss football stadium Alfonso Del Percio and Alexandre Duchêne 4. "Total Quality Language Revival" Jacqueline Urla 5. Literary tourism: new appropriations of landscape and territory in Catalonia Joan Pujolar and Kathryn Jones 6. Pride, profit and distinction: negotiations across time and space in community language education Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese 7. War, peace and languages in the Canadian Navy Michelle Daveluy 8. Frontiers and Frenchness: pride and profit in the production of Canada Monica Heller and Lindsay Bell 9. The making of "workers of the world": language and the labor brokerage state Beatriz P. Lorente 10. Language workers: emblematic figures of late capitalism Josiane Boutet 11. Silicon Valley sociolinguistics? Analyzing language, gender and communities of practice in the new knowledge economy Bonnie McElhinny

'This volume is most suited for upper-level graduate students and researchers with backgrounds in sociolinguistics and a good grasp of economics, processes of globalization, and Bourdieusian Social Theory. Because of its prominent interdisciplinary and methodological diversity, scholars outside of sociolinguistics (and even the social sciences) may find it of benefit, as well. Perhaps one of the strongest attributes of the volume as a whole is its ability to maintain a unifying theme without adopting an overly-dogmatic stance in terms of pushing a unified theory. As a result, the authors offer their own analyses as models for continued investigation and critique, thus opening possibilities for continued fruitful research.'- Linguist List