Language, capitalism, colonialism : toward a critical history
Sociolinguistics
University of Toronto Press
2017
EISBN 9781442606210
Language, capitalism, colonialism : walking backward into the future.
part I. Language, intimacy, and empire.
Language and imperialism I : conversion and kinship.
Language and imperialism II : evolution, hybridity, history.
part II. The contradictions of language in industrial capitalism.
Language and European notions of nation and state.
Internationalism, communism, and fascism : alternative modernities.
part III. Brave new worlds : language as technology, language as technique.
On the origins of "sociolinguistics" : democracy, development, and emancipation.
Language in late capitalism : intensifications, unruly desires, and alternative worlds.
part I. Language, intimacy, and empire.
Language and imperialism I : conversion and kinship.
Language and imperialism II : evolution, hybridity, history.
part II. The contradictions of language in industrial capitalism.
Language and European notions of nation and state.
Internationalism, communism, and fascism : alternative modernities.
part III. Brave new worlds : language as technology, language as technique.
On the origins of "sociolinguistics" : democracy, development, and emancipation.
Language in late capitalism : intensifications, unruly desires, and alternative worlds.
