Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers
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Köp båda 2 för 2541 krIn 1956, the French philologist Marcel Cohen suggested that language practices could usefully be understood as a form of work. Finally, decades later, we have a volume which takes up this idea seriously, exploring what language work/language as work tells us about questions of value, the social construction of reality, and social inequality in contemporary conditions. You wont look at a keyboard or a pen the same way after you have read this book. Monica Heller, Editor of the Journal of Sociolinguistics This pioneering volume on the production of high-end wordsmithery explores previously unengaged aspects of the political economy of language. In detailed examinations of the work of journalists, PR writers, marketers, linguists, and others, we see their word-craft in ways that clarify their critical and often invisible roles as semiotic brokers. Bonnie Urciuoli, Hamilton College (Emeritus), USA
Crispin Thurlow is Professor of Language and Communication in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
List of Contributors Chapter 1 The (Grubby) Business of Words: What George Clooney Tells Us Part 1: Language Work and the Business of Words Chapter 2 Unequal Language Work(ers) in the Business of Words Chapter 3 The Linguistic Business of Marketing Part 2: Wordsmiths and Professional Language Work Chapter 4 Unwriteable Discourse? Co-crafting the Language of Science News Chapter 5 Voice Work: Learning About and From Dialect Coaches Chapter 6 EAT, LOVE and Other (Small) Stories: Tellability and Multimodality in Robert Indianas Word Art Chapter 7 Judges as Wordsmiths: Crafting Clarity and Neutrality in Summing-up for Juries Chapter 8 Making (up) the News: The Artful Language Work of Journalists in Reporting Taboo Part 3: Linguists and Political Economies of Expertise Chapter 9 Framing Elite Knowledge in Shifting Linguistic Economies: The Case of Minority Language Translation Chapter 10 Beyond the Academic But: The Pleasures and Politics of Collaborative Language Work in the Publishing Industry Chapter 11 The Commercialisation of Linguistic Expertise in the Asylum Vetting Process Chapter 12 Engaging with School Principals as Language Policy Workers Index