Language and the Market Society

Download or read book Language and the Market Society written by Gerlinde Mautner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society - a society in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The book examines the phenomena from a linguistic and critical perspective, drawing on critical discourse analysis and sociological treatises of market society.