Language and symbolic power /
By: Bourdieu, Pierre.
Contributor(s): Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire)
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Publisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1992, (2005)Description: ix, 302 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 074561034X (pbk); 9780745610344:.Subject(s): SociolinguisticsDDC classification: 306.44 Summary: Examines the ways in which power is bolstered and extended by means of symbols. The book considers the importance of ritual in confirming institutions, looks at ways in which organs of power attempt to control discourse and explores the ways in which ideology can supplant reality.
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Includes index.
Translated from the French.
Examines the ways in which power is bolstered and extended by means of symbols. The book considers the importance of ritual in confirming institutions, looks at ways in which organs of power attempt to control discourse and explores the ways in which ideology can supplant reality.