List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Digging up the world: introduction -- Part I: Conceptual groundwork: 2. Invited invaders? the market society and discourse -- 3. In praise of doubt: the theoretical framework -- Part II: Applications: 4. Delivering government: marketisation in public sector administration -- 5. Learn how to make money: marketisation in higher education -- 6. Shop 'n' pray: marketisation in religion -- 7. How YOu? are like shampoo: marketisation in the personal sphere -- Part III: Perspectives: 8. Picking holes: critiquing the critical approach -- 9. From lament to agenda: critical resistance to marketisation -- 10. Saving the frog from boiling: concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society - a society in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The book examines the phenomena from a linguistic and critical perspective, drawing on critical discourse analysis and sociological treatises of market society.
Language and the market society.
9780415998147
Capitalism-- Social aspects.
Discourse analysis.
Dominance (Psychology)
Language and languages-- Economic aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Capitalism-- Social aspects.
Discourse analysis.
Dominance (Psychology)
Language and languages-- Economic aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.