PIERRE BOURDIEU, LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLIC POWER

Abstract

LI NGUISTICEXCHANGE–a relation of communication between a senderand a receiver, based on enciphering and deciphering, and therefore on the implementation of a code or a generative competence–is also an economic exchange which is established within a particular symbolic relation of power between a producer, endowed with a certain linguistic capital, and a consumer (or a market), and which is capable of procuring a certain material or symbolic profit. In other words, utterances are not only (save in exceptional …