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The Business of Words - Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers (Hardcover)
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The Business of Words - Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers (Hardcover)
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The Business of Words examines the practices of 'high-end' language
workers or wordsmiths where we find words being professionally
designed, institutionally managed, and, inevitably, objectified for
status and profit. Aligned with existing work on language and
political economy in critical sociolinguistics and discourse
studies, the volume offers a novel, complementary insight into the
relatively elite practices of language workers such as advertisers,
dialect coaches, publishers, judges, translators, public relations
officers, fine artists, journalists, and linguists themselves. In
fact, the book considers what academics might learn about language
from other wordsmiths, opening a space for 'dialogue' between those
researching language and those who also stake a claim to linguistic
expertise and a way with words. Bringing together an array of
leading international scholars from the cognate fields of discourse
studies, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, this book
is an essential resource for researchers, advanced undergraduate,
and postgraduate students of English language, linguistics and
applied linguistics, communication and media studies, and
anthropology.
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