Critical assessment and explanation of the key assumptions underlying Bourdieu’s conception of language.
Please use, reference and quote readings on the topic.
Some of the essential readings :
Bourdieu, Pierre (1992) Language and Symbolic Power, edited and introduced by John B. Thompson, translated by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1993 [1984]) ‘The Linguistic Market’, in Pierre Bourdieu, Sociology in Question, London: Sage, pp. 78-89.
