Language as Resource in the Globalized New Economy

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 347-365

  Heller, Monica ^a  

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Author keywords

Analyzing linguistic forms and practices in specific political economic conditions; Emergence of globalized new economy new conditions for production of language practices; Hierarchy and ethnolinguistic categorization overlap Canadian labor market, legitimating class hierarchy reproduction; Language as resource, language as system nation states and post nationalism; Language commodification renewing questions familiar to sociolinguists; Language, as resource in the globalized new economy; Language, values and markets under globalization; Linguistic resource management; Production, distribution and attribution of value to linguistic resources; Tension, between anonymous, agentless and transferrable forms of standardization

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EID: 84885490231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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