The Business of Words
Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers
The Business of Words examines the practices of 'high-end' language workers or wordsmiths where we find words being professionally designed, institutionally managed, and, inevitably, objectified for status and profit.Aligned with existing work on language and political economy in critical sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the volume offers a novel, complementary insight into the relatively elite practices of language workers such as advertisers, dialect coaches, publishers, judges, translators, public relations officers, fine artists, journalists, and linguists themselves. In fact, the book considers what academics might learn about lan…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-04177-5
- EAN: 9781351041775
- Produktnummer: 31670477
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 33'582 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 14 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Crispin Thurlow is Professor of Language and Communication in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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