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Languaging Class: Reflecting on the Linguistic Articulations of Structural Inequalities

by Ortu , Francesco Bachis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781648897214
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Vernon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press
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  • Pages: 194
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 268 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

This volume explores the issue of social class from the point of view of its linguistic articulations. Indeed, as Machin and Richardson (2008) stated, "discourses may be variously approached as (often simultaneously) reflecting class structures, as a site of class inequalities, as expressive of class identities or class consciousness and/or as a constituent part of more performative class action." Some of the contributions that make up the volume were presented at a conference held at Cagliari University, Italy, in 2017 and responded to the call for analyses on the role of language in reflecting, maintaining, enacting, and inculcating ideas on social class in literary and non-literary texts and discourses in any cultural or linguistic setting. This volume aspires to encourage scholars in disciplines and academic fields that have shied away from reflections on structural inequalities in favor of studies on ethnic, gender, and cultural identities in the last decades to take back on board the concept of social class and to engage with it in a novel way. The variety of approaches - ranging from the more traditional sociolinguistic one, anthropology, to literary and discourse studies - and cultural settings - with case studies coming from 3 continents - represented in the chapters show that social class is a productive and illuminating concept for trying to (re)make sense of social reproduction and change.

Bachis, Francesco: - Francesco Bachis (Ph.D., University of Siena) is Senior Research Fellow (RTD-B) in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Currently, he is carrying on a research project about heritage-making and memories in Southwest Sardinia and fieldwork on the use of the social network TikTok by the so-called "second generation" of migrants in Italy. Among his publications: "Transnational Migration in Sardinia. Reflecting on Belongings and Symbolic Boundaries" (2016); "Mobilities, Boundaries, Religions: Remarks on comparative research in the Mediterranean" (2014); and 'Sull'orlo del pregiudizio. Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica' (2018). His main research interests are Symbolic Boundaries in Transnational Migrations, Racism and Islamophobia in Europe, Visual Ethnography, and Mining Anthropology.

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