00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862137984 Buklod 20240215105153.0 g||| | || || ta 190202s2018 enk rb |||1 u|eng d 9781474281447 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00032868132 BC-70377 Fastbooks Educational Supply, Inc. Php2,993.00 DLLA Faculty OCLC BAG rda eng P 40 B56 2018 Block, David 1956- author. Political economy and sociolinguistics neoliberalism, inequality and social class David Block. London, UK Bloomsbury Academic 2018. xiii, 227 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index. A short history of political economy in sociolinguistics -- Political economy: Background and approach -- Neoliberalism: Historical and conceptual considerations -- Stratification, inequality and social class -- The neoliberal citizen: Conceptualizations and contexts -- Inequality, class and class warfare: Discourse, ideology and `truth.' This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. After the preface, in which the author sets the scene for the content of the book, Chapter 1 is an extensive, though selective, review of sociolinguistics research which has been framed as political economic in orientation. The chapter concludes that such research generally contains little in the way of thorough and in-depth coverage of the key ideas and conceptual frameworks said to undergird it. With this consideration in mind, Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are organised around in-depth discussions of, respectively, political economy as a general disciplinary frame; neoliberalism as the variegated variety of capitalism dominant in the world today; and stratification, inequality and social class, as phenomena intrinsic to capitalism, which in the neoliberal era have come to the fore as key issues. Drawing directly on the background provide in Chapters 2-4, Chapters 5 and 6 explore two distinct political economy-informed lines of research, on the one hand, the 'neoliberal citizen', and on the other hand, 'discursive class warfare'. The book ends with an epilogue addressing issues arising around political economy in sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics. Economics Sociological aspects. Economics Political aspects. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN P 40 B56 2018 Book