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Elite Discourse - The rhetorics of status, privilege and power (Hardcover)
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Elite Discourse - The rhetorics of status, privilege and power (Hardcover)
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Elite Discourse examines how language and communication - or just
discourse - define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does
so from the perspective of those people and places who often stand
to gain most from inequality. Collectively, chapters consider
language and communication that is elitist in its appeal to
distinction, excellence and superiority; they also describe the
ways in which various groups and institutions lay claim to
'eliteness' as a way to position themselves (or to be positioned by
others) as elite or non-elite. As such, chapters are concerned as
much with discourse about elite status as they are with the
discourse of elites - those groups commonly defined by their
material wealth, political control, or demographic rarity.
Ultimately, Elite Discourse views 'elite' as something we do,
rather than something we necessarily have or are. Indeed, elite
status and eliteness point us to the rhetorical strategies by which
many people differentiate themselves and by which they access
symbolic-material resources for shoring up their status, privilege
and power. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Social Semiotics.
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