Full Description
Against a background of the ongoing crisis of global capitalism and the fracturing of the neoliberal project, this book provides a detailed account of the ways in which language is profoundly imbricated in the neoliberalising of the fabric of social life.
With chapters from a cast list of international scholars covering topics such as the commodification of education and language, unemployment, and the governmentality of the self, and discussion chapters from Monica Heller and Jackie Urla bringing the various strands together, the book ultimately helps us to understand how language is part of political economy and the everyday making and remaking of society and individuals. It provides both a theoretical framework and a significant methodological "tool-box" to critically detect, understand, and resist the impact of neoliberalism on everyday social spheres, particularly in relation to language.
Presenting richly empirical studies that expand our understanding of how neoliberalism as a regime of truth and as a practice of governance performs within the terrain of language, this book is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students in English language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related areas.
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 Neoliberalism, language, and governmentality
PART I
Language and the neoliberalisation of institutions
CHAPTER 2 Linguistic securitisation as a governmentality in the neoliberalising welfare state
CHAPTER 3 Producing national and neoliberal subjects: Bilingual education and governmentality in the United States
CHAPTER 4 Framing 'choice' in language education: The case of freedom in constructing inequality
CHAPTER 5 Leadership communication 'skills' and undergraduate neoliberal subjectivity
PART II
Language and the neoliberal subject
CHAPTER 6 Linguistic entrepreneurship: Neoliberalism, language learning, and class
CHAPTER 7 Fabricating neoliberal subjects through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
CHAPTER 8 The 'self-made speaker': The neoliberal governance of speakers
CHAPTER 9 Resetting minds and souls: Language, employability and the making of neoliberal subjects
Afterwords
Towards an ethnography of linguistic governmentalities
Neoliberalism as a regime of truth: Studies in hegemony
Index
