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Cavanaugh, Jillian R. 2018. Linguistic Economies: Commentary on Language Policy Special Issue “Policing for Commodification: Turning Communicative Resources into Commodities”. Language Policy 17 (2) : 261–273. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Springer
Annotation
In this special issue of Language Policy, papers emphasize what happens to languages and their speakers as they enter the commodification realm. This study contextualizes these pieces by relating them to conversations in progress on the shifting role of and chances for language to be an economic object as well as practice.