Language and the Market Society: Critical Reflections on Discourse and Dominance

by Mautner Gerlind and Gerlinde Mautner

Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society-a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government departments have re-defined themselves as service providers; universities produce graduates; job seekers are asked to package themselves more effectively,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041599814X
• ISBN13: 9780415998147
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"