Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. 1st Edition USA; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition USA (1994) , so stated. First Printing. Very Good+ to Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ: The Book shows indications of very careful use: minimal shelving wear along the bottom edge of the blue boards; the binding rolls ever so slightly - near perfect -and is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. The DJ shows very mild rubbing to the panels; else flawless; unclipped. Attractive and intact. Virtually "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.4 x 0.75 Inches). Contributions by Christian Baudelot and Guy Vincent. Translated by Richard Teese. Language: English. Weight: 14.5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Pierre Bourdieu (1930 – 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual whose contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields such as anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture, and the arts. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France. Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society, especially the diverse and subtle ways in which power is transferred and social order is maintained within and across generations. In conscious opposition to the idealist tradition of much of Western philosophy, his work often emphasized the corporeal nature of social life and stressed the role of practice and embodiment in social dynamics. Building upon and criticizing the theories of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erwin Panofsky and Marcel Mauss among others, his research pioneered novel investigative frameworks and methods, and introduced such influential concepts as cultural, social, and symbolic forms of capital (as opposed to traditional economic forms of capital) , cultural reproduction, the habitus, the field or location, and symbolic violence. Another notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations. In this work, Academic Discourse, which concerns itself with culture and education, Pierre Bourdieu and his associates examine the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education. The book shows how the education system rewards certain kinds of articulations which subscribe to its jargon and rejects points of view differently articulated (either in terms of the language of articulation or the content of articulation). The insights of the book offer a pre-cursor to Bourdieu's educational masterpiece 'Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture', which exposed the mechanisms of power that operate in determining educational opportunities and rewards. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; viii, 136 pages .