Power and the role of language
Article outline
- 1.Recasting power
- 2.The productive nature of power: Discourse, knowledge, power
- 3.The disciplinary reason: Linguistic hierarchisation, norms and linguistic training
- 4.Governmental reason: The global market, multilingualism and self-discipline
- 5.The microphysics of power: From linguistic surveillance to securisation
- 6.The impact of power technologies, and the possibility of resistance
- 7.Concluding remarks
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Acknowledgements
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