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Angermuller, Johannes (2018) Accumulating discursive capital, valuating subject positions : from Marx to Foucault. Critical Discourse Studies, 15 (4). pp. 414-425. doi:10.1080/17405904.2018.1457551 ISSN 1740-5904.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1457551
Abstract
Whenever people use language, they participate in valuation practices, i.e. they give value to themselves as well as to others. To account for the construction of social inequality through discursive valuation practices, discourse theorists need Marxist theory and Marxists need discourse theory. By going from the early Marx to the late Foucault, I will revisit Marx’s value theory in light of practice-oriented approaches to social inequality. I will discuss examples from two distinct arenas, the monopolization of attention by populist leaders and the academic star system, both of which are accounted for in terms of the accumulation of discursive capital. This perspective asks how the value of subject positions is constructed and hierarchies between them are established in discursive practices. Investigating the construction of valuable subject positions in discourse communities, this perspective attempts to overcome the traditional division between language, the economic and the social. Discourse not only represents value and the social order but, through representation, it also contributes to constituting the social as a hierarchical world of more or less valued subject positions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Discourse analysis, Marxian school of sociology, Labor theory of value, Academic language | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Discourse Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1740-5904 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 5 April 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 414-425 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17405904.2018.1457551 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 May 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 May 2018 | ||||||
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