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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment
Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke
[Handbook of Pragmatics 25] 2022
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Power and the role of language

 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Published online: 18 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.25.pow1
Article outline
  • 1.Recasting power
  • 2.The productive nature of power: Discourse, knowledge, power
  • 3.The disciplinary reason: Linguistic hierarchisation, norms and linguistic training
  • 4.Governmental reason: The global market, multilingualism and self-discipline
  • 5.The microphysics of power: From linguistic surveillance to securisation
  • 6.The impact of power technologies, and the possibility of resistance
  • 7.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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