Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics

Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education, culture, art and language. He went beyond being a sociologist to being regarded in the same ''public intellectual'' role as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault. Issues surrounding language permeate Bourdieu''s entire oeuvre. Although he did undertake emp...