This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieu’s highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should be viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence.Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach, Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a “linguistic market” and a “linguistic habitus.” When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social field or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, bears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce.Bourdieu’s account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake.This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.

Language & Symbolic Power

Politics & Social Sciences

BOURDIEU

Social Sciences

Polity Press

The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature

<p>The field of cultural production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature, and aesthetics.</p>

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

En 1988, l’historien Roger Chartier reçoit le sociologue Pierre Bourdieu à France-Culture pour une série de cinq entretiens. Ce livre les reprend intégralement, avec une préface de Roger Chartier qui en restitue le contexte intellectuel et politique. Dans un dialogue, où se manifestent à la fois leur complicité et une claire conscience de leurs différences, le sociologue et l’historien confrontent les avancées et les problèmes de leurs deux disciplines et leurs rôles respectifs dans la société. Ils analysent ensemble les illusions et les confusions répandues par les intellectuels-prophètes, qui font obstacle au rôle émancipateur de la sociologie et de l’histoire. Trente ans après, leurs propos n’ont pas pris une ride.On trouvera notamment dans ces entretiens, sous une forme concise particulièrement claire et pédagogique, la présentation de certains concepts fondamentaux de la pensée de Bourdieu, notamment ceux d’habitus et de champ; des réponses percutantes à des objections (aujourd’hui encore) récurrentes sur son (prétendu) déterminisme, sur les (fausses) oppositions entre subjectivisme et objectivisme ou entre individu et société, etc., et contre le procès qui lui est fait de vouloir substituer son discours savant à la parole des dominés.

Le Sociologue et l’historien

CHARTIER

AGONE

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